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Market Outlook – 1st to 15th May 2026 Pricing Window

Crude and Refined Products Price Review and Outlook     International crude oil prices plummeted...

17 OMCs did not pay GH¢249.8m duties, taxes between 2022, 2021 – Auditor General

Seventeen Oil Marketing Companies did not pay duties and taxes totaling GH¢249,800,802.28 on 219,995,530 litres...

Dr. Patrick Kwaku Ofori assumes office as CEO of Ghana Chamber of Bulk Oil Distributors 

Dr. Patrick Kwaku Ofori has officially assumed office as the CEO of the Ghana Chamber of Bulk Oil Distributors...

CBOD donates laptop computers to University of Ghana

The Ghana Chamber of Bulk Oil Distributors (CBOD) has donated 20 laptop computers to the University of Ghana...

Patrick Kwaku Ofori appointed CEO of Chamber of Bulk Oil Distributors

The Ghana Chamber of Bulk Oil Distributors has announced the appointment of Dr Patrick Kwaku Ofori as its new...

Senyo Hosi to step down as CEO of Chamber of Bulk Oil Distributors

The CEO of the Ghana Chamber of Bulk Oil Distributors, Senyo Hosi is stepping down at the end of July 2022. Mr...

CBOD Market Outlook 1st to 15th July 2022

Refined Products Review and Outlook The international market price of gasoline and LPG decline by 8% and 11%...

BDCs get only $100million forex from BoG; $350million more needed to pay suppliers — Senyo Hosi

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for the Chamber of Bulk Oil Distributors (CBOD), Mr. Senyo Hosi has disclosed that...

Fuel Price Hikes: Fix TOR now – IES tells government

Record-high fuel prices mean government can no longer ignore the glaring need to revamp Tema Oil Refinery (TOR)...

Sulphur level of 50ppm waived till December 2024, continue to produce diesel and petrol at 1,500ppm — NPA to local refineries

The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) has announced the directive to local refineries to produce and supply at Sulphur level of 50 parts per million (50ppm) in accordance with the ECOWAS directive on Harmonized Specification for Automotive Fuels has been waived. The waiver effective Thursday, January 20, 2022 will run till 31st December 2024. It means...

Matrix Terminals will boost Ghana’s LPG security – Senyo Hosi

The CEO of the Ghana Chamber of Bulk Oil Distributors (CBOD), Senyo Hosi has lauded Nigeria’s Matrix Energy Group for constructing a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) storage depot in Tema. The newly-built facility, which is known as Matrix Terminals, comprises two gas tanks with a total storage capacity of 6,000 metric tonnes. The Terminal commenced...

Fuel prices may go up by 3.7% this month – COPEC predicts

The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers (COPEC) has hinted that prices of petrol and diesel are expected to go up this month. According to COPEC, prices of the products may go up by 3.7% and 2.5% respectively, in the 1st Pricing Window of January 2022. In nominal terms, COPEC insisted that ex-pump prices of petrol and...

BOST to upgrade depots, expand pipeline capacity in 2022

The Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company Limited (BOST) says it will in 2022 continue with the upgrade of its depots across the country. It will also repair the remaining defective tanks and increase the Tema Akosombo pipeline capacity from the current six inches to 12 inches to improve the efficient delivery of petroleum products...

Fuel prices to go up in January by 18pesewas – IES

Fuel prices at the pumps will see a marginal increase in the first pricing window of January 2022. This is as a result of the 8.18% increase in the price of the International Benchmark-Brent crude as well as the poor performance of the cedi against the dollar. This further means that fuel prices on the...

GOIL to lose GH¢9M monthly over fuel price reduction, it’s not sustainable – COPEC

The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers (COPEC) is worried that the directive to GOIL to reduce fuel prices could cost it GH¢9 million every month, insisting that is not a sustainable solution. Speaking on Eyewitness News, the Executive Secretary of COPEC, Duncan Amoah, said the directive was “very problematic” because of the possible effects on GOIL...

GOIL withdraws from Association of OMCs over accusations of government interference in fuel price review

The GOIL Company Limited (GOIL) has with immediate effect withdrawn its membership from the Association of Oil Marketing Companies (AOMCs). GOIL’s decision followed accusations by the AOMCs that its recent reduction in fuel prices was influenced by the Government of Ghana, a major shareholder in the company. The AOMC had written to the Energy Minister, Dr...

‘We weren’t directed by government to reduce our fuel prices by 15p’ – GOIL

Ghanaian oil marketing giant, GOIL, has refuted suggestions that its latest 15 pesewas price reduction on petrol and diesel was in response to a directive from the government. GOIL has thus challenged the Association of Oil Marketing Companies to provide proof of its claims. GOIL’s reduction came barely 24 hours after commercial drivers embarked on...

Government directs GOIL to reduce price of fuel after meeting with transport unions

Government has directed the Ghana Oil Company (GOIL) to reduce price of fuel at the pumps effective Tuesday, December 7. This follows a crunch meeting between government and transport operators at the Presidency on Monday evening. Head of Communications at the GPRTU, Abass Imoro, who disclosed this on PM Express with Evans Mensah, on Monday, said government...