There is more bad news for the government of Ghana and the upstream oil and gas sector as oil production and revenues are set to plummet by 50%; thus putting extra pressure on an already…
Theo Acheampong spoke to Ghanaian media on the sidelines of the Africa Oil Governance Summit on developments in the country’s power sector. In two separate interviews given to Joy News, he discussed the impact of…
I reproduce below my latest policy paper published on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) Title: Petroleum Product Pricing, Deregulation and Subsidies in Ghana: Perspectives on Energy Security Authors: Theophilus Acheampong (University of Aberdeen) and…
My three-part series (papers 2 and 3 co-authored with Kwamena Essilfie Adjaye) on the ongoing power crisis (aka ‘dumsor’) in Ghana and the way forward is available for download via the links below. Enjoy the…
In Africa, oil explorers will keep drilling and producing from select locations such as onshore east Africa and less complex projects off the West African coast even with oil at $60 a barrel. For example,…
In an interesting twist of events, the Ivorian government formally requested the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) for a suspension of oil exploration and production activities in the disputed maritime boundary…