On 25 April 2018, delivered a public lecture yesterday as an IMANI Africa @ImaniAfr Fellow on the “Critical Future of Ghana’s Energy Sector and How to Avoid More Surprises to Ghana’s Growth Prospects”. Many thanks to…
Originally Posted By This is Africa By EDDIE O’CONNOR Developing adequate power supply for Africa is one of the great challenges of our time. The climate agreement in Paris in December at COP 21 makes…
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…
Theo Acheampong spoke at the launch of the IMANI & Oxfam America Citizens’ Demand for Accountability in Ghana’s Oil and Gas Sector report. Advocates for a Long Term National Development Plan to guide 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…
This is one of the policy initiatives I will vigorously pursue to diversify Ghana’s energy mix, were I to have the chance. All public schools (especially the secondary schools), municipal and district assemblies and communities…
Global Context Last week, crude oil prices fell below the key $80 per barrel mark on international markets as new information confirmed a slowdown in the economic recovery — weak manufacturing activity in Europe and…
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Myself and IMANI Ghana have teamed up to publish our independent first quarter (Q1) 2014 assessment of some of the most pressing issues confronting Ghana’s energy sector. Please let us know your thoughts if any…
The Ghana Water Company loses nearly half of the water it produces. Its official target for what it calls Non-Revenue Water (NRW) is 46.3 percent. Strangely enough, PURC, the regulator allows for NRW of 45…
This week, international news media reported that France’s Total had struck oil on the CI-100 block off Ivory Coast adjacent to Ghana’s giant Jubilee Field. The block is very close to the Jubilee and TEN…
The last time we were told our inability to import crude oil for the refinery was due to difficulties with raising letters of credit (LC’s) as a result of arrears owed Ghana Commercial Bank (GCB)…
Norway today ranks top in every major human development metric and it didn’t occur by chance. Rather, it had a concerted policy in place to develop a national petroleum industry, and avoid becoming a country…