A LECTURER at the  Department of the Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the College of the Engineering of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology  (KNUST) has acknowledged  the huge potentials of Ghana’s oil find. Dr. Stephen Kudom Donyinah says the quality of Ghana’s oil is unique and, therefore, Ghana cannot fail with the discovery. He was sharing his views... Read more

In the first year of RWI’s oil, gas and mining media training program, Revenue Watch and Ghana program partner Penplusbytes have focused mainly on journalists and media organizations working in the capital city, Accra.  On 23 November, Penplusbytes introduced the program to Ghana’s “second city,” Kumasi, in the gold-rich Ashanti region. During a launch meeting with... Read more

Revenue Watch Institute in conjunction with The International Institute for ICT Journalism (Penplusbytes) today launched the “Strengthening Media Oversight of the Extractive Sectors Pilot Program” in Kumasi with Revenue Watch Africa Director Emmanuel Kuyole delivering the keynote. During the launch Dr. S.K Doyina of the Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Department of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science... Read more

On Monday, a group of African journalists arrived in Accra, Ghana for a 10-day Revenue Watch workshop to strengthen their knowledge and skills for reporting on oil, gas and mining. The participants, seven Ghanaians and seven Ugandans, working for newspapers, magazines, radio and TV, are the second class in RWI’s media training program. They were selected for their track record as journalists... Read more

Sylvanus Nana Kumi of the Ghana Business Guide emerged the first recipient of the prestigious Ghana Journalists Association “Oil and Gas reporting” award 2011. The award is sponsored by Revenue Watch Institute (RWI) through its Ghanaian partner Penplusbytes (PPB) under the “Strengthening Media Oversight of the Extractive Sectors Pilot Program”. The “Strengthening Media Oversight of the Extractive Sectors Pilot Program” is... Read more

Revenue Watch Institute working with Penplusbytes is sponsoring the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) Award for best reporter in “Oil and Gas” category taking place on Friday September 9th, at the Banquet Hall, State House, Accra Ghana.  This award comes at a time Ghana is producing oil and gas in commercial quantities and the media is expected to play a watch dog... Read more

The Revenue Watch Institute (www.revenuewatch.org) is in the second year of an extensive media capacity building program for suitably qualified journalists in GHANA and UGANDA. The program is designed for journalists with a demonstrated interest in reporting about the extractive sectors of oil, gas, and minerals. The Training Program The training program consists of two residential courses. The first course will be... Read more

…… Bonyere charges on Government, Energy Ministry over Gas Project The people of Bonyere, a farming and fishing community living next to Ghana’s main oil field, though fully support the proposed gas processing facility in their backyard say it threatens to deprive future generations access to land for farming and development. The multi-million gas processing facility to be established by the government... Read more

.As people of Bonyere demand return of land People in the Jomoro District of the Western Region support a plan to build a gas plant in their backyard to utilize gas from the jubilee oil field but they are concerned that the construction of the plant will deprive their children of lands for future use. “We are not enemies to the project.... Read more

The Revenue Watch Institute are in the second year of an extensive media capacity building programme for suitably qualified journalists from Ghana and Uganda interested in oil and gas reporting. The training programme will begin in August 2011 and run over a period of 6 – 8 months. There are approximately 14 places available this year – 7 places for Ghanaian... Read more