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Onshore Oil Exploration In the Voltaian Basin Yielding Dividends

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Thursday announced that a pilot survey in the Voltaian basin for possible...

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Higher Oil Prices Boost ExxonMobil, Chevron Earnings

US petroleum giants ExxonMobil and Chevron reported big jumps in second-quarter profits Friday, the latest boost from a...

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Tullow Records $ 300m Loss After Tax In 2017 First Half

Tullow Oil has posted a loss after tax of 300 million dollars for the first half of this year. The figure represents a...

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Sri Lanka Deploys Troops Amid Oil Workers Strike

Sri Lanka deployed troops and police to distribute fuel Wednesday as striking petroleum workers protested over plans to...

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SRI EMAS Touts Role In Start of Oil Production At Cape Three Points

SRI EMAS Limited (SEL), the company responsible for the complete subsea...

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Procurement Delays Impeding New Oil Explorations – GNPC CEO

The Ghana National Petroleum Corporation, GNPC, has appealed to President Akufo Addo to intervene and grant the...

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GNPC To Go Into Fertilizer, Ethanol Production – CEO Reveals

Chief Executive Officer of Ghana National Petroleum Commission (GNPC), Dr. Kofi Kodua Sarpong has hinted of plans by...

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Nana Addo Commissions FPSO Kufuor

The President ,Nana Akufo-Addo has commissioned the Floating Production Storage and Offloading Vessel (FPSO) John...

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Akufo-Addo Turns Valve On FPSO John Agyekum Kufuor

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is expected to turn the valve on the Floating Production Storage and Offloading...

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Energy Firms Hit By Oil Dive, N.Korea Crisis Fuels Uncertainty

Asian energy firms sank Thursday following a plunge in oil prices while equity traders remained on edge after North...

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NPA Intensifies Monitoring Activities Over Contaminated Fuel

The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) says it is intensifying its monitoring operations at retail outlets of petroleum...

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Companies In ‘suspicious’ Contaminated Fuel Sale Unlicensed – NPA

The National Petroleum Authority, (NPA), has confirmed that the two companies alleged to have purchased the over the...

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Oil Revenue Not Understated — GNPC

The Ghana National Petroleum Company (GNPC) has denied allegations made by the Public Interest and Accountability...

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Asia Markets End Week On Quiet Note As US Healthcare Bill Returns

Asian markets limped into the weekend, with energy firms still struggling after a bruising few days, while investors...

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ACEP Opposes Hedging, Wants Stabilization Fund Fortified

The African Center for Energy Policy (ACEP) has opposed calls for Ghana to hedge its oil against global price...

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Oil Production Drops By 5.11 Million Barrels

Oil production dipped by some 13.7percent in 2016, from 37.41million barrels in 2015 to 32.30 million barrels, in spite...

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Ghana Projects Slight Drop In Fuel Price

The local fuel market in the first Pricing-window in June 2017 recorded interesting turn of events. Prices were...

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Local Fuel Prices To Drop Slightly

The local fuel market in the first Pricing-window in June 2017 recorded interesting turn of events. Prices were...

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Palestinians To End Pay For Suicide Bomber Families

The leadership of the Palestinian Authority has agreed to halt payments to the families of suicide bombers, US...