GhIPCON is the country’s foremost Petroleum Downstream Conference to share ideas The Ghana International Petroleum Conference (GhipCon) is slated for today March 10, 2021, via a Zoom meeting to discuss issues and policies concerning Petroleum Operations in the country. GhipCon 2021 is expected to provide critical insights into market shifts and policies occasioned by the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), which makes Africa the world’s largest free trade area. The Virtual Conference will host about 2,000 people including business people and major global and regional corporates with an interest in Africa. The conference will tackle five major topics which include; AfCFTA and the future of trade in Africa: Implications for Africa’s downstream, Leveraging AfCFTA to build a self-reliant Africa: Repositioning refining and supply chain, optimizing downstream petroleum revenues in the era of AfCFTA, Harmonizing Downstream regulation in the era of AfCFTA: Myth or Necessity? And Covid-19: the present and future of downstream petroleum; A global and African perspective. Overcoming potential barriers towards the implementation of AfCFTA.