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Ghana
ENI and Tullow Oil despondent as GNPC battles with GNGC over gas development

Kofi Koduah Sarpong, CEO of Ghana National Petroleum Corporation. © Ghana National Petroleum Corporation

State-owned GNPC and its gas arm GNGC are locked in an unrelenting battle for control over Ghana's natural gas development to the chagrin of the other oil companies active in the West African country. [...]

Published on 19/06/2020 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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