Abstract

Ghana's only indigenous upstream petroleum company engaged in petroleum operations, Springfield Ghana Limited, made the Afina-1 well discovery in its West Cape Three Points Block 2 in November 2019. It informed the Minister for Energy that the discovery was in the same reservoir of that of ENI and Vitol's producing Sankofa Field and requested for a unitization of the two fields. However, this was met with resistance from ENI and Vitol, which argued that the grounds for unitization had not been made out. Ghana, ordered the parties to enter into unitization, causing ENI and Vitol to bring ...