{"id":988109,"date":"2022-02-12T19:40:03","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T19:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/12\/petroleum-price-deregulation-policy-to-be-reviewed-abdul-hamid\/"},"modified":"2022-02-12T19:40:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T19:40:03","slug":"petroleum-price-deregulation-policy-to-be-reviewed-abdul-hamid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/12\/petroleum-price-deregulation-policy-to-be-reviewed-abdul-hamid\/","title":{"rendered":"Petroleum: Price deregulation policy to be reviewed \u2013 Abdul-Hamid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Business News of Saturday, 12 February 2022<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>classfmonline.com<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/298\/29868071.295.jpg\" alt=\"CEO of NPA, Dr. Mustapha Abdul-Hamid\" title=\"CEO of NPA, Dr. Mustapha Abdul-Hamid\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\"> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>CEO of NPA, Dr. Mustapha Abdul-Hamid<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p id=\"article-123\">The Chief Executive Officer of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) Dr. Mustapha Abdul-Hamid has disclosed that the price deregulation policy of the petroleum sector is being reviewed.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the media on Friday, 11 February 2022 in Kumasi after a tour of the Ashanti region, he said a committee was set up and has completed its work on it and has presented its report to him.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Mustapha said the report will be studied by him and pass it on to the Minister for Energy to also study it.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Minister will decide with his technocrats whether to take it to the cabinet for a proper cabinet decision to be taken on the next face of the deregulation policy.<\/p>\n<p>The policy was implemented in 2015 to allow marketers and importers of petroleum products to set directly, their prices based on import parity costs, taxes, and margins.<\/p>\n<p>It brought an end to government subsidies on the product.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Mustapha said the policy is being reviewed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business News of Saturday, 12 February 2022 Source: classfmonline.com CEO of NPA, Dr. Mustapha Abdul-Hamid The Chief Executive Officer of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) Dr. Mustapha Abdul-Hamid has disclosed that the price deregulation policy of the petroleum sector is being reviewed. Addressing the media on Friday, 11 February 2022 in Kumasi after a tour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[4906,4907,3408,587,169,4908],"class_list":["post-988109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-business","tag-abdulhamid","tag-deregulation","tag-petroleum","tag-policy","tag-price","tag-reviewed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}