Yet as President Akufo-Addo was speaking a new row had blown up over state resources; an attempt by Freddie Blay the veteran NPP politician and now chairman of the state-owned Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) to sell 50% of the company's stake in Jubilee Oil Holdings to Petro SA in defiance of an order from Energy Minister Matthew Opoku Prempeh and in breach of the regulatory framework of Ghana's upstream petroleum sector...
Lukoil a Russian energy company has written to Matthew Opoku Prempeh Ghana's Minister of Energy to express concern about the government's plans to buy into Deepwater Tano/Cape Three Points an oil licence in which Lukoil has a 38% stake (AC Vol 62 No 16 Crude deal)...
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Ghana's energy minister Matthew Opoku Prempeh at the centre of a storm in Accra about the viability of a revived oil project with Norway's Aker told the Houston summit 'We have millions of people without electricity in Africa ' adding that the green energy transition should not mean Ghana's fossil fuel resources would be left stranded (AC Vol 62 No 16 The oil economy breaks up)...
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NDC members of the appointments committee are expected to give particularly harsh scrutiny to Dominic Nitiwul (Defence) Matthew Opoku Prempeh (Energy) Ursula Owusu-Ekuful (Communications) and Ken Ofori-Atta (Finance)...
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