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Ghana’s petroleum sector management is a mess: what’s gone wrong?

By Clement Sefa-Nyarko, Postdoctoral research associate, La Trobe University

After three decades of prospecting Ghana discovered commercially viable quantities of petroleum in 2007. Within 3.5 years, it exported its first barrels of crude oil. The progression from discovery to extraction and export was twice as rapid as the global average of six to seven years.

The record speed is indicative of the significant political interest in the sector relative to others such as…

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