The first consignment of the Gold for Oil Policy by the government to stem the increasing depreciation of the cedi against the major currencies has arrived at the Tema Port and discharged into the receptacles of Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company (BOST), Graphic Online has gathered. The 41,000 metric tonnes of the petroleum products […]
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Energy Ministry, NPA and Central Bank to avert imminent fuel shortage – Senyo Hosi
The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Chamber of Bulk Oil Distributors, Senyo Hosi has said that stakeholders are working to avert any of fuel shortage in the country. He said this in response to a Bloomberg report that the country faces a looming fuel shortage. Speaking on Top Story, Tuesday, Senyo Hosi explained that government […]
Bank of Ghana to give bulk distribution companies lower dollar rates – NPA boss
Chief Executive Officer of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), Dr. Mustapha Abdul-Hamid, has disclosed that the Authority has secured a deal with the Bank of Ghana to give bulk oil distribution companies lower rates of dollar. Dr. Abdul-Hamid hoped the deal lead to a decline in the prices of petroleum products in the country in […]
Fuel prices to stabilise – BDCs assure public after BoG intervention
The persistent rise in the prices of petroleum products at the pumps in the last couple of months will now be a thing of the past, the Chief Executive Officer of the Chamber of Bulk Oil Distributors (CBOD), Senyo Hosi, has assured. This follows the major intervention by the Bank of Ghana (BoG). The central […]
BOST saves $24m in payments to BDCs
The management of the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company Limited (BOST) has saved $20 million on claims it would have paid to eight Bulk Distribution Companies (BDCs). The Managing Director of BOST, Mr Edwin Alfred Provencal, who disclosed this to the Daily Graphic in an exclusive interview, said the companies had put in a […]
Fluctuating oil prices put indigenous OMCs, BDCs in peril
Price fluctuations in global crude and refined product prices are taking a heavy toll on Ghana’s downstream markets, resulting in Bulk Oil Distributors losing millions of dollars and throwing many indigenous Oil Marketing Companies out of business. Out of the 130 oil marketing companies operating in the country, 50 – according to estimates – are […]
Govt clears legacy debts to bulk oil distributors
The government has fully paid off its indebtedness to bulk oil distribution companies (BDCs) that accrued between 2011 and 2015, the Chief Executive Officer of the Chamber of Bulk Oil Distribution Companies, Senyo Hosi has revealed. According to Mr Hosi, the final payments, which included interests accrued on the debt, was done on January 13, […]
Scrapped fuel taxes cost 232 million Ghana Cedis between 2017 and 2018-Energy Minister
By John Elliot HAGAN, Accra Minister for Energy John Peter Amewu has disclosed that government spent GH₵232 million providing tax reliefs on petroleum products to ordinary Ghanaians between December 2017 and June 2018. He says the reliefs are part of government’s efforts to use tax interventions to mitigate the impact of the increasing price of […]