The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has inaugurated the 225 kilovolts Bolgatanga to Ouagadougou Power Interconnection Project, which will see up to 100 megawatts of power supplied directly to Burkina Faso from Ghana.

Minister for Energy, Hon. John-Peter Amewu on Thursday, September 20, 2018, addressed both local and foreign media at the Ministry of Energy on the state of Ghana’s energy sector.

Ghana will launch its first exploration licensing round in the last quarter of this year offering about six offshore blocks, deputy energy minister Mohamed Amin Adam said.

Oil industry watchers have expressed concern about the inability of Ghanaians to pool resources to take up the five per cent equity participation in the oil sector reserved for indigenes.

Ghanaian companies in the upstream oil and gas sector have described their participation in various trade missions organised by the country’s upstream industry regulator as beneficial to the growth of the local oil industry.