Jinapor's decision follows years of bitter dispute between Eni Springfield and the government of Ghana whose legal team is led by former Attorney-General Godfred Dame after former Energy Minister Matthew Opoku Prempeh issued the unitisation directive to the two companies...

Sources say four government figures from the Ashanti Region are at the top of the list: Matthew Opoku Prempeh (Energy Minister) Yaw Osei Adutwum (Education Minister) Osei Kyei Mensah (former majority leader in parliament) and Kwabena Agyapong (a former General Secretary of the NPP)...

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)...