The CEO of Tema Oil Refinery and a former Goldman Sachs banker helped pass millions of dollars in bribes to Ghanaian officials to curry favour for his clients’ plans to build an electrical power plant, the Securities and Exchange Commission alleged on Monday. The SEC said in a complaint filed […]
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Ghana’s only oil refinery shut after explosion
The blast at the crude distillation unit, which caused no casualties, is the latest problem to hit the refinery, which has for decades performed below its capacity of 45,000 barrels per day. “It was a damper failure. It failed to open to allow heat to escape through the chimney and […]
Ghana: TOR to start processing a million barrels of crude from the TEN field starting from January 6, 2017
In Ghana, the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) is expected to start processing crude oil from the Tweneboah Enyerra Ntonme (TEN) field from Friday, January 6, 2017. This was declared by the Managing Director of TOR, Kwame Awuah Darko, who sees the development as historic. According to Darko, he is optimistic […]