Contents: Foreword, Farouk Al-Kasim; Preface; Introduction, Kwaku Appiah-Adu; Part I Turning Oil and Gas Wealth into Sustainable and Equitable Development: Managing the extractive resource, Stephen K. Donyinah; Revenue management in the oil and gas sector, Kwaku Appiah-Adu and Francis Mensah Sasraku; Ghana's petroleum revenue management law; a social contract for good economic governance and possible challenges, Joe Amoako-Tuffour and Mangowa A. Ghanney; Risks in gas-power project financing, Francis Mensah Sasraku. Part II Entrenching Transparency and Stakeholder Engagement: Towards good governance in Ghana's petroleum sector, Kwaku Appiah-Adu and Nana Kegya Appiah-Adu; Civil society and the evolution of accountability in the petroleum sector, Patrick R.P. Heller; Can Ghana avoid the resource curse?, Inge Amundsen. Part III Effective Management of the Oil and Gas Sector: Ghana's present legal framework for upstream petroleum production, Ama Jantuah Banful; Petroleum economics - Ghana's petroleum tax regime and its strategic implications, Francis Mensah Sasraku; Maximizing national development from the oil and gas sector through local value-add: extracting from an extractive industry, Anthony E. Paul; Natural gas as a source for downstream industrial development, Kerston Coombs. Part IV Safeguarding Security and the Environment: Oil and gas issues: the environment, health, safety and community engagement, Samuel Aning; Oil and gas security issues, Samuel Aning. Part V Country Specific Models and Lessons for Ghana and Other African Oil-Producing Nations: The Trinidad and Tobago model: learnings for Ghana and Africa, Anthony E. Paul; The main attributes of the Norwegian approach, Farouk Al-Kasim; The Norwegian experience: potential lessons for Ghana and other African countries, Kwaku Appiah-Adu; Conclusion, Kwaku Appiah-Adu; Index.