Category: Oil and Gas

All is set for the commencement of the planned expansion of Dangote Refinery production capacity from 650,000 barrels per day (bpd) to 1.4 million bpd in the next three years.The move, according to refinery management, comes alongside investments in petrochemicals such as polypropylene, base oils and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). The management also reaffirmed its...

Star Oil pays GH¢ 2.6 billion in taxes and levies for 2025. The announcement was captured in a post on Star Oil’s social media page on, January 14, 2026. The data also showed that Star Oil paid GHC 41 million in corporate income tax on its operations in 2025. In terms of withholding tax and...

Oil production offshore Benin, Nigeria’s neighbor to the west, is set to begin by the end of January, the field operator said on Monday in what would be the first oil from the redeveloped field after it was shut down in 1998. Akrake Petroleum expects to start production at the Seme Field in Block 1...

The Chamber of Oil Marketing Companies (COMAC) has raised concerns over what it describes as ongoing regulatory challenges with the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), warning that the issues pose a threat to operational stability and fairness within the petroleum downstream sector.In a press release signed by the industry regulator Dr. Riverson Oppong, the Chamber said...

Partners in Ghana’s Tweneboa, Enyenra and Ntomme (TEN) oil fields have reached an agreement on final sale and purchase terms to acquire the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel currently deployed at the field, ahead of the expiry of its lease in 2027, according to Kosmos Energy. In its operational and financial update released...

Ghana is set to increase its stake in the Jubilee oilfield as part of a licence extension agreement that will allow continued production from the country’s flagship offshore assets well into the next decade, while also supporting efforts to arrest output decline through additional drilling. The government has approved extensions to the West Cape Three...

Ghana’s first-quarter laycan allocation programme, dated 31 December 2025, is triggering pushback from a cross-section of importers who say the schedule’s growing reliance on three-party co-loading is raising operational risk and eroding certainty for supply planning. At the centre of the discontent is a shift in how discharge windows at ABB are being shared. Multiple...

The Chief Executive of the National Petroleum Authority, Mr. Godwin Kudzo Tameklo (Esq.), has commended Sentuo Oil Refinery for its contributions to the downstream petroleum sector. The NPA Boss also implored Sentuo Refinery to increase local content participation. These comments come after a team from the National Petroleum Authority led by the CEO, paid a...

Management of Tema Oil Refinery has officially procured and handed over a fleet of vehicles to significantly enhance and strengthen the operational efficiency of the refinery.The fleet comprises eight (8) brand new Mitsubishi vehicles, three (3) Toyota Coaster buses, two (2) industrial forklifts, as well as other essential operational vehicles to support day-to-day activities across...