Nigerian energy firm Forte Oil said it plans to sell its upstream services and power businesses in Nigeria and divest from Ghana to focus on its core fuel distribution operation at home.
The move comes as a surprise about-turn for a company whose Chief Executive Akin Akinfemiwa told investors in...
GOIL Board Chairman Kwamina Bartels has given the strongest indication yet that the state oil player is ready to be a major player in the upstream oil industry.
Mr. Bartels made this disclosure when he addressed the 49th AGM of the Ghana Oil Company Limited (GOIL) in Accra. This development...
Ghana Oil Company Limited (GOIL) has expressed interest in moving upstream to become a major player in the exploration and production business.
Its Board Chairman, Kwamena Bartels, told shareholders at their 49th Annual General Meeting that the company intends to partner an international player with proven technical competence to operate...
A team of officers from the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) is in the Central Region visiting selected communities as part of a nationwide door-to-door LPG safety campaign.
The team, from the Corporate Affairs Division, visited several eateries in the Mankessim, Komenda and Cape Coast areas, where vendors were educated on...
Four major oil-funded projects that were listed as completed in the Northern, Upper West and Brong Ahafo Regions cannot be traced, Kumasi Institute of Technology, Energy and Environment (KITE) has revealed after a visit to proposed oil-funded project sites.
The four missing projects were: a 3-unit classroom block at Soo...
A team of officers from the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) is in the Central Region visiting selected communities as part of a nationwide Door-to-Door LPG Safety Campaign.
The team, from the Corporate Affairs Division, visited several eateries in the Mankessim, Komenda and Cape Coast areas, where vendors were educated on...
For the first time in the history of the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC), which is held annually in the American city of Houston, Ghana will have a Pavilion at the April 30 to May 3, 2018 event.
This is according to the Commercial Section of the United States Embassy in...
Tullow Oil plc (Tullow) has announced the appointment of Dorothy Thompson as independent non-executive Director and Chair-designate subject to the approval of the Group’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) to be held next week April 25, 2018.
Ms. Thompson when approved will be succeeding Aidan Heavey, Tullow’s current Chairman and Founder,...
United Kingdom (UK) Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy to Ghana, Adams Afriyie, has led a delegation of 18 Scottish companies to sign MOUs that will enable capital investment in Ghana’s oil and gas industry.
The partnership is to ensure that the right equipment is used so as to build the capacity...
Over 1,000 residents - from Inchaban, Aboadze, Abuesi, Dwomo and Shama in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis and Shama district respectively in the Western Region - have benefitted from a health outreach programme organised by the West African Gas Pipeline Company (WAPCo).
“These communities house our pipeline onshore, and in a conversation...