The chief executive officer of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), Opoku Ahweneeh Danquah has said the national oil company will continue to fully implement local content in its exploration and production (E&P) operations.
Parliament’s Committee on Employment, Social Welfare and State
Enterprises has raised concerns over the financial standing of the
Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC).
The CEO of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), Opoku Ahweneeh Danquah has said the global risk of tightening financial markets coupled with the clear and present danger of capital flight out of African fossil fuel projects is a clear indication to increase the involvement of the African financial sector in securing long term capital for oil and gas projects.
The upstream petroleum industry awarded contracts worth US$3.6billion to indigenous companies over the last three years, thereby deepening the local content policy.
The African Energy Chamber (AEC), the voice of the African energy sector, is honored to announce that Opoku Ahweneeh Danquah, CEO of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), will be attending and participating as a keynote speaker at this year’s edition of the African Energy Week (AEW) (www.AECWeek.com) conference and exhibition, Africa’s premier event for the oil and gas sector which will take place from 18 – 21 October in Cape Town.
Opoku-Ahweneeh Danquah said that there are inherent challenges in Ghana’s oil and gas sector which requires the immediate attention of all stakeholders
The Ghana Upstream Petroleum Chamber has called on the government to urgently put in strategic incentives to attract more investment in oil exploration in the country.
GNPC is firmly backing their CEO, Mr Opoku-Ahweneeh Danquah, in his stellar leadership and is appalled by unsubstantiated publications.
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.
At the meeting of heads of NOCs and energy ministers of member-countries of the African Petroleum Producers’ Organisation (APPO) in Nigeria (Abuja), the CEO of GNPC said the energy transition is inevitable, but even the most developed countries still rely heavily on fossil fuels and are rethinking the pace at which the transition should take place.