Court freezes Eni, Vitol payments over Springfield dispute
A Ghanaian court has ordered the government to halt payments to Eni and Vitol, amidst the ongoing legal dispute with local company Springfield Exploration & Production.
A Ghanaian court has ordered the government to halt payments to Eni and Vitol, amidst the ongoing legal dispute with local company Springfield Exploration & Production.
An Eni delegation visited Ghana this week to hold talks on expanding its Sankofa hub, although with no comments on unitisation with the Afina find.
A lack of co-operation between Eni and Springfield E&P in Ghana risks losing the state $6.34 billion, the Institute for Energy Studies (IES) has warned.
Eni has called for more clarification on Ghana’s order for unitisation of the Sankofa field with Springfield Exploration and Production’s Afina field.
Ghana has ordered Eni and Springfield Exploration and Production to unitise the Afina and Sankofa fields, after the two companies failed to make progress on their own.
Springfield Exploration and Production began drilling the Afina-1x well, offshore Ghana, on October 7.