{"id":183370,"date":"2024-10-26T18:50:25","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T16:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-exploration-of-resources-ghanas-crude-oil-production-dips-piac-observes-calls-for-urgent-attention\/"},"modified":"2024-10-26T18:50:25","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T16:50:25","slug":"ghana-exploration-of-resources-ghanas-crude-oil-production-dips-piac-observes-calls-for-urgent-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-exploration-of-resources-ghanas-crude-oil-production-dips-piac-observes-calls-for-urgent-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Exploration of Resources &#8211; Ghana&#8217;s Crude Oil Production Dips &#8230;Piac Observes, Calls for Urgent Attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">A member of Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC), Mr Constantine K. M. Kudzedi, has warned that Ghana must act quickly to address the steady decline in crude oil production.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">He revealed that since 2020, crude oil production had been declining by an average of 9.2 per cent annually, largely due to technical and operational challenges in mature fields.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">To address this, he said the government should adopt a multi-pronged strategy focused on economic diversification, sustainable&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410170564.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A member of Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC), Mr Constantine K. M. Kudzedi, has warned that Ghana must act quickly to address the steady decline in crude oil production. He revealed that since 2020, crude oil production had been declining by an average of 9.2 per cent annually, largely due to technical and operational [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":183371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,9664,6137,2337,20447,9746,4508,4509,8226,257,15707,4221,22475,7544,6482,254,11318],"class_list":["post-183370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-attention","tag-calls","tag-crude","tag-dips","tag-exploration","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghanas","tag-news","tag-observes","tag-oil","tag-piac","tag-production","tag-resources","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urgent"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}