The Best Western Atlantic Hotel in Takoradi was the scene for this year’s Local content conference organised by the Petroleum
Commission of Ghana.
Key players in the oil and gas sector will tell you it’s a big deal on their annual calendars. It is a show-and-tell time for these companies to tout their achievements in local capacity contribution to the oil and gas sector, and to also project into the future.
Tullow Ghana’s enduring local impact
Nigeria’s crude oil production, including condensate, rose year-on-year, YoY by 30 per cent to 1.6 million barrels per day, bpd in October 2023, from 1.2 million bpd recorded in the corresponding period of 2022.
Chevron Nigeria Limited, has expressed commitment to partnership with various stakeholders including the communities neighbouring its areas of operations in the Niger Delta, for sustainable development.
Custos Energy announced that the Mopane 2X exploration well located on blocks governed by Petroleum Exploration License 83 (“PEL 83”) in the heart of Namibia’s Orange basin has been spud.
Eni and the Swiss company Open Energy Platform AG (Open EP) have entered into an agreement to guarantee the flow of gas to Switzerland and Italy even in the event of interruptions or significant reductions in gas flows from Germany. The Six-legged Dog made this known in a press release which specifies that the agreement favors the efficient use of the Swiss Transit gas transport infrastructure in relation to both the flows of gas from France to Italy through Switzerland and the safety of gas supply in Switzerland.
Opec has hit back at the latest research on transition in the oil and gas sector released by the International Energy Agency (IEA), claiming the report aims to “vilify” the industry while ignoring the quest to secure energy supplies for global economies.
The Society of Petroleum Engineers—Ghana Section (SPE Ghana) is fast becoming the ideal section and a trailblazing force in Africa through remarkable strides and resounding accomplishments that will forever echo in the chronicles of the global energy industry.
The country has only started the exploitation of its petroleum resources and cannot sacrifice it midstream on the altar of energy transition, the Minister of Energy, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has stated.
Energy Minister, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, on Tuesday, November 21, 2023, opened the exhibition component of the 2023 Upstream Local Content Conference and Exhibition in Takoradi.
Sustainability-linked loans, or SLLs, have only been around for a few years. In that short time, they have ballooned into a market worth $1.5 trillion. But now, as scrutiny comes for sustainability claims with no substance, that market faces a reckoning. And so do the banks that lent those money.