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Ghana Starts Commercial Oil Production

Ghanaian President, John Atta Mills, says his country will not squander its revenue from the new found oil, and that it will learn from the mistakes of other African oil producers and save some of the revenue for future generations after production starts.
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Eirik Raude, semi-submersible rig, drilling offshore Ghana for Tullow Oil.

  • Ghana:   Atta Mills Rejoices As Oil Flows

    Ghanaian Chronicle, 17 December 2010

    An overjoyed President John Evans Atta Mills turned the wheels for the official production of oil in commercial quantity on board the Floating Production Storage and Offloading… Read more »

  • Ghana:  Mills Complained to U.S. About Oil Company

    allAfrica, 17 December 2010

    President John Atta Mills complained to the United States in February this year about the behaviour of an oil company involved in the exploitation of the country's oil resources,… Read more »

  • Ghana:   Ghana Will Not Squander Oil Revenue - Mills

    Leadership, 16 December 2010

    Ghanaian President, John Atta Mills, says his country would not squander its revenue from the new found oil, and that it would learn from the mistakes of other African oil… Read more »

  • Ghana:   Making Use of Oil Revenue

    Ghanaian Chronicle, 16 December 2010

    The Head of State was ecstatic. Read more »

  • Ghana:   Nation's Oil Begins to Flow

    Ghanaian Chronicle, 15 December 2010

    After over a century of frantic search for oil, the flow of the black gold in commercial quantity from the bosom of the earth will begin today, off the shores of Cape Three Points… Read more »

  • Ghana:   Oil Revenue is Nobody's Booty

    Ghanaian Chronicle, 15 December 2010

    The President of the Republic, Prof. John Evans Atta Mills, will perform a simple ceremony at the Jubilee Oil Fields, off Cape Three Points, today. This will begin Ghana’s… Read more »

  • Nigeria:   'Ghana's Oil Discovery No Threat to NNPC Gas Project'

    This Day, 13 December 2010

    Managing Director of the Nigerian Gas Company (NGC), Mr. Saidu Mohammed, has allayed apprehension in some quarters that the recent commencement of oil production in Ghana could… Read more »

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