Petroleum (Exploration and Production) Law 2016

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Field	Value
Sector	Oil and Gas
Country	Ghana
Year	2016
RGI Edition Year	2017
Topic	Commodity prices, Contract transparency and monitoring, Legislation and regulation, Licensing and negotiation, State-owned enterprises
Document Type	Statute
RGI Sub-component	Licensing
RGI Questions	1.1a: How does the country legally define the ownership of subsoil extractive resources?, 1.1c: What licensing process does the licensing authority follow?, 1.1.3a: Is the government required to set pre-defined criteria by which companies become qualified to participate in a licensing process?, 1.4.7b: Are there rules that determine the prices at which the SOE should sell its production?
Did this document contribute to RGI scoring?	Used for scoring
Are the RGI questions here tagged with law and/or practice	Law
Publisher	Ministry of Petroleum
Author	Government of Ghana Government of Ghana
Source or API link	http://www.petromin.gov.gh
Maintainer	Natural Resource Governance Institute
Maintainer Email	Natural Resource Governance Institute