High Court dismisses Eni’s judicial review application on unitisation directive by Energy Ministry
A judicial review application on the unitisation directive of the Afina and Sankofa oil fields by Eni, has been quashed by an Accra Hgh Court.
Eni and its partners in April this year, filed a motion at the Accra High Court for a judicial review of the directive by the Ministry of Energy and asked the court to among others declare that the purported directive by the Energy Ministry was illegal.
The court presided over by Justice Emmanuel Mensah, however, dismissed the case, ruling that the motion paper to the application “is incompetent”.
“The court has carefully reviewed all the affidavit evidence on record in respect of the instant judicial review application together with their exhibits thereto attached and of course the statements of case filed by counsels on behalf of their respective clients and has come to the form that the judicial review application filed by the applicants on the 12 April is unmeritorious for which reason it should fail and of course accordingly dismissed,” said Justice Emmanuel Mensah.
The unitisation of the Afina and Sankofa oil fields is expected to earn the country some $8.4 billion as against the $2.06 billion to be earned by the state in the incidence of no unitisation.
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