Petroleum Resource Management in Africa

Theophilus Acheampong is Associate Lecturer and Honorary Research Fellow at the Aberdeen Centre for Research in Energy Economics and Finance (ACREEF), The University of Aberdeen, and also an Associate Lecturer at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP), The University of Dundee. He is also co-Founder of the iRIS Research Consortium, and a non-resident Senior Fellow at Ghanaian Think Tank IMANI Centre for Policy and Education, all based in Accra, Ghana.Thomas Kojo Stephens is a Senior Partner at Stobe Law in Accra, Ghana, and the Head of the Transactional, Oil and Gas Practice, as well as the Consultancy Group of the firm. He is an Advisory Board Member of the International Energy Law Advisory Group (IELAG), a Principal Trainer at the International Energy Law Training and Research Company (IELTRC), and a former Vice-Chairman of Ghana’s Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC), a statutory body with oversight over the useof Ghana’s petroleum revenue.  He is also a Senior Lecturer at the University of Ghana School of Law.

• 1. Introduction: Ghana’s Petroleum Industry in Transition.- 2. Examining Ghana’s New Exploration and Production Act and Other Legislative Developments.- 3. The Ghana-Cote-d’Ivoire Maritime Border Dispute and Transboundary Resource Management in the Gulf of Guinea.- 4. Upstream Petroleum Fiscal Regimes: Is Ghana’s Tax Regime Fit for Purpose?.- 5. The Petroleum Commission and Management of Ghana’s Petroleum Resources.- 6. The Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) and its Contribution as a National Oil Company.- 7. Social Equity and Conflicts in the Six Coastal Communities of the Western Region of Ghana.- 8. Local Content and Local Participation in Ghana’s Oil and Gas Industry: Has Ghana Gotten It Right?.- 9. Fiscal Policy and Petroleum Revenue Management: Is Ghana on the Path to Beating the Resource Curse?.- 10. Oil and Socio-Urban Economic Development in the Western Region.- 11. The State, Governance and the Upstream Oil and Gas Industry in Ghana.- 12. Public Interest Organisations, Transparency Initiatives and Petroleum Sector Oversight and Accountability.- 13. Utilising Ghana’s Gas Resources: Implications for Industrial Development and Inclusive Growth.- 14. The Energy Transition and Africa’s Oil and Gas Resources: Opportunities and Challenges.- 15. Petroleum Resource Management Lessons from New African and Other Petroleum-Producing Countries.- 16. Conclusion: The Future of Africa’s Petroleum Industry.