St Augustine’s Yes, Minister No?
By James Kofi Annan Last week the headmaster of the St Augustine’s College in Cape Coast, Joseph Connel was reported to have been interdicted by the Ministry of Education, for charging newly...
Tag: Oil & Gas Refining and Marketing – NEC
Fuel Price Increments Unjustified – Group
The Institute for Energy Security, an energy policy think tank, has described the recent increment in price of petroleum products by some Oil Marketing Companies as “unjustified” and lacking...
Drivers Threaten To Increase Transport Fares By 20%
The Committed Drivers Association have threatened to increase fares by 20 percent from Monday October, 25, 2016 if government fails to reduce the prices of fuel. The National Petroleum Authority...
St Augustines Yes, Minister No?
Last week the headmaster of the St Augustine’s College in Cape Coast, Joseph Connel was reported to have been interdicted by the Ministry of Education, for charging newly admitted students...
Fuel Price Up By 4% Not 11%
The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) has described an announcement by the Chamber of Petroleum Consumers (COPEC) of Ghana that fuel prices have gone up by 11 percent as false and misleading. In a...
Decision To Withhold Results of 85 Schools Unfair; I’ll Go To Court
Private legal practitioner, Maurice Ampaw has given the West African Examinations Council a two-week ultimatum to release the withheld results of 85 schools found to have cheated in the 2016 WASSCE...
Fuel Prices Up 11%
Fuel prices across various outlets in the country have increased between three and 11 per cent, the Chamber of Petroleum Consumers Ghana (COPEC-GH) has indicated. This follows a review of fuel prices...
Burning the Bridges of Lies Tobacco and Fossil Fuel Industry Built
He smoked cigarettes and coughed a lot, leaning against the walls of a street in a cold morning. As I became more concerned, as of my journalistic works, I cracked open my car door immediately...
Uganda Oil Refinery Completion Date Pushed To 2020
Uganda has rescheduled the completion date for its planned crude oil refinery plant in Kabaale, Hoima district, by two more years after a lead investor pulled out of the project at a crucial stage of...
TOR Cannot Refine 10ppm Diesel – Senyo Horsi
The Tema Oil Refinery does not have the capacity to refine 10 parts per million (ppm) sulphur content levels for diesel. That’s according to the Bulk Oil Distributors. On Tuesday, CEO of TOR, Awuah...
How Hillary Clinton’s State Department Fought for Ghana’s Oil
In 2009, Kosmos Energy, a small oil exploration company in Texas, wished to cash in on its discovery of an oil field off the coast of Ghana — one of the largest found in West Africa in a decade....
Petrosol Launches Campaign To Ensure Accuracy At the Pumps
As part of efforts aimed at providing the right quantity of fuel to its consumers, Oil Marketing Company, Petrosol has launched the ‘Full Quantity Campaign’ in Accra. The move is also intended to...
Ban Dirty Fuels
The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers Ghana (COPEC-GH) is demanding a total ban on all substandard fuels with a high concentration of sulphur. “Our interest as a people is for the very best of...
GOIL Appoints Alex Adzew As New Chief Operating Officer
A mechanical engineer, Alex Josiah Adzew, has been appointed as the Chief Operating Officer of the Ghana Oil Company Limited (GOIL). His appointment which was announced at the 427th meeting of the...
Niger Delta Avengers Break Truce With Pipeline Blast
Warri (Nigeria) (AFP) - The Niger Delta Avengers on Saturday claimed responsibility for the destruction of a major oil pipeline in southern Nigeria, breaking a ceasefire the militant group had...
World Bank Fulfills US$700m Guarantee For Sankofa Project
The World Bank last Thursday approved a US$700 million guarantee for Ghana’s third oil and gas production field, Sankofa-Gye-Nyame, which is said to contain more than 200 million barrels of oil and...
Ghana Gas Deals Tough With Striking Workers
Four workers of the Ghana National Gas Company (Ghana Gas) have been sacked for going on strike illegally. The management of the company has told 42 others that they would forfeit their salaries for...
Ghana To Receive US$500m World Bank Guarantee For ENI Gas
The World Bank will provide up to $500 million to Ghana in the form of a partial risk guarantee for use if the country defaults on payments for gas from the Sankofa field, the state oil company said...
Change Vehicle Import Policy To Solve Toxic Fuel
Head of Public Affairs at the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA), Kofi Bediako Amponsah, has suggested that a change in Ghana’s vehicle importation policy, will resolve the importation of toxic fuel...
TOR Constrained In Production of Low Sulphur Content Fuel
Lack of infrastructure and funds are the constraints to Ghana’s quest to fast-track the processes to achieve low sulphur content in diesel and other petroleum products, the National Petroleum...