Ghana earned $731.94 million in petroleum receipts in the first half of this year, representing 108.9 per cent increase over the 2021 half year receipt of $350. 31 million.
The figure is also $51.39 million shy of the $783.33 million bagged in the entire 2021, and brings to $8.09 billion the revenue the country had received since 2011 when it started producing oil in commercial quantities.
This was contained in the semi-annual report on the management and use of petroleum revenues for January -June 2022 released by the Committee at a press briefing in Accra yesterday. On the distribution, the report said the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation received $173.84 million and the Annual Budget Funding Amount $183.02 million.
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