Overview
Discusses sustainability and how policy initiatives can help produce long term growth
Contains practical details on how best practice approaches can be implemented with the petroleum industry
Provides safety, security, and health guidelines for the development of petroleum
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About this book
This book explores Ghana’s newfound oil wealth and how the revenues it generates can be used to produce inclusive economic growth and development. Comparisons are made with neighboring countries, including Nigeria, Angola, and Equatorial Guinea, to highlight how petroleum resources can create jobs, increase research and development skills, and generate government revenue to invest in local services and infrastructure. The impact of global developments, such as the 2014-16 oil slump and innovation within the industry, are also covered.
Petroleum Resource Management in Africa to provide policy suggestions and an operational framework for other petroleum producing countries. It will be of interest to academics and policymakers interested in resource and development economics.
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Regulating and Managing Ghana’s Upstream Oil and Gas Industry
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Oil and Gas and Ghana’s Economy
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Oil and Gas Governance and Lessons Learnt
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International Perspectives and Conclusions
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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 use of Ghana’s petroleum revenue. He is also a Senior Lecturer at the University of Ghana School of Law.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Petroleum Resource Management in Africa
Book Subtitle: Lessons from Ten Years of Oil and Gas Production in Ghana
Editors: Theophilus Acheampong, Thomas Kojo Stephens
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83051-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83050-2Published: 04 May 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83053-3Published: 04 May 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-83051-9Published: 03 May 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XLVII, 630
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 87 illustrations in colour
Topics: Economy-wide Country Studies, Development Economics, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Economics, general