{"id":218909,"date":"2026-01-02T22:36:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T20:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/ghana-to-reduce-petrol-imports-from-nigeria-as-tema-refinery-restarts-operations\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T22:36:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T20:36:06","slug":"ghana-to-reduce-petrol-imports-from-nigeria-as-tema-refinery-restarts-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/ghana-to-reduce-petrol-imports-from-nigeria-as-tema-refinery-restarts-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana to Reduce Petrol Imports From Nigeria As Tema Refinery Restarts Operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The volume of petrol required by Ghana from Nigeria may drop significantly as the country&#8217;s state-owned 45,000 b\/d Tema refinery has resumed operations after suffering being inoperative since April 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Nigeria&#8217;s 650,000 b\/d Dangote refinery was the biggest supplier this year, sending 27,000 b\/d of oil products to Ghana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">The restart will help ease the country&#8217;s reliance on clean product imports, which have more than doubled since 2017 to 128,000 b\/d this year, including 65,000 b\/d of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601020311.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The volume of petrol required by Ghana from Nigeria may drop significantly as the country&#8217;s state-owned 45,000 b\/d Tema refinery has resumed operations after suffering being inoperative since April 2021. Nigeria&#8217;s 650,000 b\/d Dangote refinery was the biggest supplier this year, sending 27,000 b\/d of oil products to Ghana. The restart will help ease the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":218910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,4508,10673,257,4687,393,6345,7453,8391,17220,9774,254,12656],"class_list":["post-218909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ghana","tag-imports","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-operations","tag-petrol","tag-reduce","tag-refinery","tag-restarts","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tema"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/218909","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=218909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}