Gender and Oil

Issues and events related to the business of oil as it affects gender in Ghana.

Tullow Oil reiterates focus on local content development

Tullow Oil reiterates focus on local content development

Jubilee Partner, Tullow Oil Ghana says local content build-up is at the heart of its oil and gas operations because of the commercial advantages. Communications Manager, Gayheart Mensah says local capacity building and capability development helps to ease access to local raw materials for the company whilst creating shared prosperity in the country. This he...

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Bad weather forces closure of Takoradi Airport

Authorities at the Airforce Station in Takoradi have on the advice of the Ghana Metrological Agency closed down the Takoradi Airport to flights due to poor visibility as a result of severe harmattan. The closure according to operators of domestic airlines is denying them huge revenue. The Takoradi Airport, which is now one of the...

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Jubilee partners launch exhibition for students

Jubilee partners, operators of the jubilee oilfields, on Thursday launched an exhibition in Kumasi to educate Senior High School (SHS) students on activities involved in the exploration, production and lifting of oil. The aim of the exhibition is to keep them adequately informed about what goes into the production of oil and the opportunities...

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Ghana proposes easing of fuel price hikes

 February Feb 8 (Reuters) – Ghana’s government has proposed a 20 percent reduction in fuel price hikes after labour unions threatened to go on strike, but the National Petroleum Authority has not yet signed off on the move, officials said. In December Ghana announced a cut in fuel subsidies following an increase in crude...

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Ghana: oil revives prostitution

Ghana’s seaport of Takoradi has regained its former vibrancy in the past year since President John Atta Mills turned the wheels to mark the production of first oil. As the numbers of expat oilman increases, so does the prostitution. by Francis Kokutse, Takoradi As an old harbor city and the western regional capital, Takoradi...

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Tullow Oil launches $6 million Scholarship Scheme

Tullow Oil has launched a scholarship scheme worth more than $6million to support 110 young scholars from nine developing countries including 50 from Ghana. The Tullow Group Scholarship Scheme would benefit university graduates with second class upper or first class degrees, and HND holders with distinction drawn from Ghana, Uganda, Gabon, Cote D’Ivoire, Kenya,...

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Forum participants want receipts of oil revenue pulished

Participants in the 63rd Annual New Year School and Conference (ANYSC) have called for transparency in the oil and gas sector by the publication of receipts and records of revenues, as well as a tracking system for the use of these revenues. They were of the view that the revenues accruing from oil had...

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Ghana’s oil has repercussions for women in Western Region – Dr Darkwa

Accra, Jan. 12, GNA –Recent research findings show that Ghana’s oil sector has socio-economic implications on gender, and impacts negatively particularly on women living in the Western Region. Dr Akosua Dakwa, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, University of Ghana, Legon, who made the observation on Wednesday stated that the findings revealed that...

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Expert challenges Ghana to take full control of its natural resources

Mr Edwin Van-Otoo, Vice-President of Ghana Oil and Gas Service Providers Association, on Wednesday called for visionary leadership in harnessing the country’s natural resources for socio-economic development. He said it was time Ghana took over the control of her natural resources and safeguard the current hike in their exploitation by foreign companies for their...

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Kosmos Energy, other investors free to do business in Ghana – President Mills

President John Evans Atta Mills has assured that KOSMOS Energy and other foreign investors in the country that they will be allowed to do business in Ghana without any impediments. At a meeting with the Chairman of the KOSMOS Board of Directors, Mr John Kemp in New York, the President said the government would...

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GOIL outdoors new brand logo

Ghana Oil Company Limited (GOIL) at the weekend outdoored a new brand logo and launched its new re-branded image into the oil marketing industry in the country.

Ghana: Cocoa and Palm Oil Crop Failures Linked to Pesticides

[SciDev.Net] Accra - A primary reason for Ghana's cocoa and oil palm production decline is the killing of pollinating insects by pesticides used on farms, says a study.

Ghana Loses GH¢583 million Oil Revenue

Ghana has failed to achieve the targeted oil revenue of GH¢1.250 billion for 2011 as the nation has only raked in GH¢666 million from the commodity.

An introduction to a rebellious and a sinking nation, Ghana

Once upon a time, the nation Ghana, formally Gold Coast was the envy of other African countries, a darling colony and a pride nation of the British before and after independence. A loving and hospitable, compassionate, sociable and easy to approach people.

Cocoa and palm oil crop failures linked to pesticides

[ACCRA] A primary reason for Ghana's cocoa and oil palm production decline is the killing of pollinating insects by pesticides used on farms, says a study.

Duffuor scores 100% on Ghana’s oil scorecard; BoG fails

A review of Ghana’s oil and gas sector by the Institute of Economic Affairs Ghana (IEA) has shown that considerable improvements are needed to improve transparency and accountability, with the sector receiving an overall P-TRAC Index score of 59.7% in 2011.

Ghana: Ghana's Oil and Pirate Activities in the Gulf of Guinuea - a Cause for Great Concern

[Ghanaian Chronicle] THE RECURRENT pirate activities in the Gulf of Guinea and the increasing threat of terrorism in neighbouring Nigeria has raised grave security concerns to oil shipments in the West African sub-region and these are invariably too close for comfort to Ghana's oil installations.

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