Ghana’s President, H.E. John Dramani Mahama, on Tuesday officially opened the Africa Oil Week (AOW) 2025 in Accra, pledging the government’s full support to make the event grow even bigger.
The CEO of Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), Kwame Ntow Amoah, has been appointed Chairman of the African Petroleum Producers’ Organisation (APPO), marking a significant milestone for Ghana’s leadership in the continent’s energy sector. The appointment was formalised during a handover ceremony at the 7th APPO National Oil Companies CEOs Meeting in Accra today, where […]
The world needs to develop new oil and gas resources just to keep output flat amid faster declining rates at existing fields, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Tuesday in a major shift in its narrative from 2021 that ‘no new investment’ is needed in a net-zero by 2050 scenario.
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The Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) has signed three new exploration agreements worth more than USD 121 million with international companies in onshore and offshore areas, Egypt’s Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources announced on Sunday.
Kuwait Petroleum Corp. is considering leasing part of its pipeline network to help fund a $65 billion investment plan that covers everything from upstream to petrochemicals, according to people familiar with the matter.
“So far, there has been no discussion of tariffs, either on India or on China,” one of the unnamed sources told Reuters, adding that Brussels was just wrapping up a trade deal with India and did not want to jeopardize that.
The developer of the Alaska LNG project, Glenfarne, has been busy in the past months finding companies willing to make offtake commitments for the $44-billion project that is being actively promoted by the Trump administration. The company is yet to make a final investment decision on Alaska LNG but plans to make one for the facility’s pipeline by the end of the year, and another for its export terminal in 2026.
Bloomberg’s Javier Blas reported the news in a column this week, citing a draft of the IEA report, World Energy Outlook. The agency uses a set of scenarios for the future, including some major assumptions, such as that all currently discussed climate-related policies would come into effect in full. Until 2020, the IEA included a Current Policy Scenario, which, as the name suggests, reflected actual policies being implemented.
Chevron plans to increase its oil production in Argentina’s shale play Vaca Muerta to about 30,000 barrels per day (bpd) by the end of the year, from around 25,000 bpd now, Ana Moneto, the U.S. supermajor’s Argentina country manager, said.