Hundreds of workers of Eni Ghana Exploration and Production Ltd have expressed disquiet over the seeming foul play in the unitisation of the Afina discovery in West Cape Three Points Block 2 Area (WCTP2) and the Sankofa field in Offshore West Cape Three Points Block Area (OCTP), which has been in contestation since 2020.
A Commercial High Court sitting in Accra, has granted a motion for an interlocutory injunction restraining the government of Ghana from making further monthly payments to Eni Exploration and Production Ghana Limited and its Partner, Vitol Upstream Ghana Limited for gas supplied to the state from the Sankofa Field.
The upstream petroleum industry in Ghana was energised with the commercial discovery of oil in the Jubilee Field in 2007.
The immediate past Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), Dr K.K. Sarpong, has expressed the conviction of a robust energy sector under the current Minister of Energy, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh.