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​Industry majors, including Global LPG Partnership (GLPGP), World LPG Association, Clean Cooking Alliance, Shell Foundation and Oryx Energies at the meeting insisted on the need for the development of a robust African LPG value chain. ​Speaking on the backdrop of the continent’s growing population, the stakeholders led by the Executive Secretary of ARDA, Anibor Kragha said the need for energy transition in the face of projected growing energy demands remain sacrosanct. ​Kragha highlighted LPG as a credible near-term solution for reducing carbon emissions against polluting solid fuels,...

Stakeholders seek options for maximising AfCFTA  With a growing population, huge energy demand and projected industrial and agricultural boom, cross-border infrastructural deficits, funding gaps, smuggling, and lack of harmonized taxes are critical bottlenecks limiting the growth of Africa’s downstream petroleum, stakeholders have said. x    Except the price differential challenge is addressed, energy experts have insisted that the gains of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) in the downstream sector of the continent’s petroleum industry...

NPA Boss advocates for harmonised fuel prices for Africa The Chief Executive Officer of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), Alhassan Tampuli Sulemana has advocated for harmonisation of the pricing structure of petroleum products on the African continent. According to him, such harmonisation would take away variations in the pump prices between neighbouring countries, which he added encourages smuggling. Mr Tampuli gave a welcome address at the 2021 edition of the Ghana International Petroleum Conference (GHIPCON) held on Tuesday and Wednesday this week. The 2-day conference was under the ...

The Chief Executive Officer of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), Hassan Tampuli, has revealed that Africa rsquo;s petroleum downstream sector suffers an acute infrastructure deficit.

• Nations require 4 million MT to meet 2022 target Stakeholders in the energy sector have expressed concern over poor access to clean cooking as over four billion people, or approximately half of the world’s population, face health challenges posed by fossil fuels. United Nations, the African Refiners and Distributors Association (ARDA) and global players in the energy sector, who gathered under the umbrella of Liquefied Petroleum Gas for Sustainable Development Goal seven (LPG4SDG7) at an online meeting insisted that unless cooking gas is prioritized in the medium-term, energy poverty wo...