Issues and events related to the business of oil as it affects gender in Ghana.
By Moses Dotsey Aklorbortu – A multi-million dollar integrated waste management facility at Nyankrom in the Shama District of the Western Region has been completed to handle waste from the country’s offshore oil fields. A Ghanaian company, Zeal Environmental Technologies, which manages hazardous and non-hazardous wastes from all marine vessels, owns the facility, which will...
Lucrative energy windfalls will fund wide range of social and commercial infrastructure works. One of Africa’s most economically, politically and socially stable countries, Ghana is utilizing its strategic location and vast natural resources to drive impressive socioeconomic development in partnership with major international investors. Rich in gold, cocoa and other natural resources, the country of...
The fishing and oil industries are intertwined in a complex relationship around the world. Oil is a blessing for national treasuries, and a curse when offshore drilling and spills damage fisheries and fishing communities.
In Korea, Ghana is better known for its chocolate than its investment opportunities but recently the landscape has changed. A couple of months ago, STX broke ground on their $10 billion deal to build 200,000 housing units in the west African nation -― a plan that is expected to make a substantial dent in Ghana’s...
Ghana needs oil and gas analysts to predict the happenings in the sector as Ghana has joined the oil producing countries of the world, Dr. Toni Aubynn has said. Dr Aubynn who is the Head of Corporate Affairs at Tullow Oil Ghana, also urged Ghanaians to take advantage of the other auxiliary jobs associated...
The Revenue Watch Institute has welcomed new transparency rules adopted by the G8 on Friday, saying, “That is real progress toward allowing citizens to track how their governments use that money.” Vanessa Herringshaw, director of RWI’s London office said “The G8 wants oil, gas and mining companies to report the payments they make to...
The Energy Ministry has rejected claims that some oil deals entered into by government are questionable. Former first lady Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings is reported to be planning to review such contracts if she fulfills her dream of becoming Ghana’s next president. But the Energy Ministry in a statement said the former first lady’s spokesperson...
The Programme Co-ordinator of Friends of the Earth and convener for Oil Watch, Noble Wadja, says there are serious lapses in Ghana’s emerging oil and gas industry which needs a temporal halt in the production of oil for the lapses to be corrected. Mr Wadja said there are no strict guidelines to deal with...
By J. Ato Kobbie, Managing Editor – Business Analyst – The Tema Oil Refinery (TOR), which received a new lease of life last month, after reeling under a suffocating debt to the Ghana Commercial Bank (GCB) for years, has now redefined its competition and charting a growth pole to become the first choice of import...
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