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- Vol 51 No 17
- 27/08/2010
The politics of no
Party feuding, jarring personalities and tax deals – not rivalry with China – have kept ExxonMobil out of Ghana’s oil fields
- Vol 51 No 17
- 27/08/2010
A government team in the oil battle
President John Evans Atta Mills has remained above the fray throughout the dispute between the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) and Kosmos Energy but has set up two committees to advise him on policy on the contentious sale. The first was set ...
- Vol 51 No 15
- 23/07/2010
Storm in an oil barrel
A commercial dispute between the government and a US oil company has become diplomatically damaging – so President Mills is looking for a way out
- Vol 51 No 15
- 23/07/2010
The 3.8 billion dollar question
Aside from the party political rivalries, geopolitics and diplomatic jousting involved in the Kosmos Energy debacle in Ghana, there is a central concern: that the government stands to earn at least US$3.8 billion more in tax under the terms negotiated wit...
- Vol 51 No 7
- 02/04/2010
Oil spill
No end is in sight to the row between the government and the United States' Kosmos Energy over Kosmos's efforts to sell its equity stake in Ghana's Jubilee oil field to ExxonMobil (AC Vol 51 No 2). The government has no reason to change its opposition ...
- Vol 51 No 5
- 05/03/2010
Oil and optimism
The President’s grand development plans contrast sharply with partisan manoeuvres in Parliament and beyond
- Vol 51 No 5
- 05/03/2010
Burning passions
A bizarre series of fires at government buildings has led to a whispering campaign reminiscent of the spate of brutal murders before the 2000 election campaign, which Flight Lieutenant (Retired) Jerry Rawlings had claimed were organised to damage the the...
- Vol 51 No 1
- 08/01/2010
Opening time at Osu Castle
Mills promises more affable politics and a welcome mat for oil companies but cannot ignore market realities or the harsh conditions in the countryside
- Vol 51 No 1
- 08/01/2010
The great oil battle begins
There will be two cheers on 31 October when Ghana is due to produce its first crude oil for export: the missing cheer reflects concern that the country could be sucked into the vortex of an unaccountable oil economy, while its bright potential for comm...
- Vol 50 No 25
- 18/12/2009
The oil obstacles
The politically charged battle over Kosmos Energy's attempts to sell its stake in the Jubilee field casts a shadow over Ghana's graduation as a serious oil producer next year. Kosmos is at the centre of a partisan row about its granting of a 3.5% equit...
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