Ghana

PROJECTS WITH IDA

The International Development Association is expected to offer a loan to Ghana by the end of the year for a [...]

AGC'S COSTS CLIMB

Ashanti Goldfields Corporation (AGC), 25% of whose capital was sold to the private sector in a successful stock flotation in [...]

VALCO IN PRODUCTION CUTBACK

The Volta Aluminium Company (Valco) has closed down one of the four and a half electrolysis lines representing 450 pots [...]

NEW PARTNER IN BRGM-GENCOR PROJECT

The Canadian company Altai Resources is to buy Oro Sunkwa's [...]

VALCO TO CUT CONSUMPTION

As the Volta Aluminium Company presses ahead with negotiations with the government on a new outline agreement and future investment [...]

NEW BASIS FOR TANO PROJECT

Although there has been no lack of studies on the Tano North and South fields, particularly as part of a [...]

VALCO'S RATES TO RISE

Ghana's government is determined to obtain a rise in rates paid by the Volta River Aluminium Company (VALCO) for the [...]

MORE STUDIES ON TANO

The Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) has chosen Stone and Webster Engineering to prepare technical documents prior to putting together [...]

GNPC TEAMS WITH SAMAX IN GOLD PROJECT

The chairman of Ghana National Petroleum Corp. (GNPC), Tsatsu Tsiraka, [...]

COYNE ET BELLIER STUDY THREE SITES

The Volta River Authority (VRA) has asked Coyne et Bellier to carry out a feasibility study on the hydroelectric site [...]

SOGELERG WINS STUDY

The Volta River Authority has called on the French company Sogelerg to carry out a study on using gas from [...]

EDF-SAUR CONTRACT SIGNED

Electricité de France and SAUR Afrique have signed an agreement to take over the commercial management of Electricity Corporation of [...]

GOLD AND PRIVATIZATION: DUNKWA ALSO FINDS A BUYER

With the Courts and Parliament having lifted the last political [...]

NEW LOANS FOR WEST AFRICA

The Caisse Francaise de Développement has offered new loans in the electricity sector to Ghana, Guinea and Sao Tome and [...]

NEW CFD LOAN TO GCDL

The Caisse Francaise de Developpement will put up Ffr15.2 million [...]

TWO STAGES FOR ABOADSE

The combustion turbine and combined cycle power station that the Volta River Authority (VRA) will run at Aboadse near Takoradi [...]

The British company South Wales Transformers has won a $1,265,000 [...]

A GLUM YEAR

According to the latest available figures from the franc zone's issuing banks - Banque des Etats d'Afrique Centrale (BEAC) and [...]

AGC TRIPLES PRODUCTION IN SIX YEARS

Ashanti Goldfields Corp (AGC), Ghana's leading mining company that is [...]