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Party feuding, jarring personalities and tax deals – not rivalry with China – have kept ExxonMobil out of Ghana’s oil fields

The announcement on 17 August by ExxonMobil that it is abandoning its campaign to buy a 23.5% stake in the Jubilee field, Africa’s biggest offshore oil field, is likely to precipitate a bid by the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), backed by the China Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), Africa Confidential has learned....

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China, United States, Joe Oteng-Adjei, John Evans Atta Mills, British, Gobind Nankani, Johnnie Carson, Norway, George Owusu, Kwame Bawuah-Edusei, John Kufuor, Ireland, Betty Mould-Iddrisu, Africa Confidential

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