Vol 51 No 17 | GHANA The politics of no 27th August 2010 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...
Vol 51 No 17 | GHANA A government team in the oil battle 27th August 2010 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...
Vol 51 No 15 | GHANAUNITED STATES Storm in an oil barrel 23rd July 2010 A commercial dispute between the government and a US oil company has become diplomatically damaging – so President Mills is looking for a way out The grand launch of Ghana’s commercial oil production this year has begun inauspiciously with a bruising battle between the government and the state oil company on one hand...
Vol 51 No 15 | GHANA The 3.8 billion dollar question 23rd July 2010 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...
Vol 51 No 7 | GHANA Oil spill 2nd April 2010 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...
Vol 51 No 5 | GHANA Oil and optimism 5th March 2010 The President’s grand development plans contrast sharply with partisan manoeuvres in Parliament and beyond In a year’s time Ghana should be producing 150,000 barrels of oil a day and its economy should be growing at well over 10% a year (AC Vol...
Vol 51 No 5 | GHANA Burning passions 5th March 2010 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...
Vol 51 No 1 | GHANA Opening time at Osu Castle 8th January 2010 Mills promises more affable politics and a welcome mat for oil companies but cannot ignore market realities or the harsh conditions in the countryside Sporting a sharply-pressed black and white dashiki, President John Evans Atta Mills welcomed journalists into the well-guarded grounds of the Castle in Osu, Accra, on 7 January. One...
Vol 51 No 1 | GHANA The great oil battle begins 8th January 2010 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...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 12 | GHANACHINA A consensual affair 21st October 2010 Oppositionists call for scrutiny of the promised financing from Beijing amid concerns over spiralling national debt The stratospheric figures – all in billions of dollars – emerging from President John Atta Mills’s grand tour of Asia last month suggest the love affair between Accra...