Act 919, section 44
Petroleum (Exploration and Production) Act, 2016
Decommissioning and abandonment obligations sit in statute, not in a contractor slide. The register exists so those duties can be checked against named assets.
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Multi-market registerGhana featured
A single source of truth for decommissioning assets
enatlas is a verified asset-register for wells, structures, and abandonment liabilities. A map helps you look. Location, ownership, inspection history, end-of-life, last-checked, and gaps decide value. Any market. Ghana first.
- Oriented to
- IHO S-121
- Path
- NEMS.eco · NITA
- Peers
- NSTA · SODIR
Saltpond
Public funds closed a field without a validated inventory
Ghana paid to decommission Saltpond. The liability did not leave with the contractor. It sits with the State until every asset is named, owned, inspected, and checked.
A map helps. Verified records decide value.
Unvalidated inventoryLiability to the State
L.I. 2359, regs 61 and 61A
Petroleum (Exploration and Production) (General) Regulations
Plans, cost estimates, and abandonment programmes need an inventory that can be inspected. A fund without a validated register is an estimate without a denominator.
Bank of Ghana, 2024
Decommissioning and abandonment fund
The fund is now a public-financial fact. The remaining question is whether the asset list that drives contributions, drawdowns, and residual liability is complete.
Risks
The fund, the as-built, and the standard can disagree
Three failures repeat across basins. They are not mysteries. They are what happens when money, permits, and lenders move faster than the asset list.
01
ExposureFund miscalculation
If the inventory is incomplete, the fund is wrong in one direction or the other. Either the State over-collects against a ghost list, or it under-collects and inherits the gap.
02
ExposureEPA as-built versus the plan of development
Environmental sign-off and the PoD often describe different objects. Without a reconciled register, as-built, permitted, and funded inventories can diverge until the bill arrives.
03
StandardWorld Bank ESS1 and ESS4
Assessment and community health and safety standards expect identifiable assets, residual risk, and a trail of who last checked. A narrative report is not a register.
Benefits
A register changes the bargain, the bid list, and the bill
The point is not a prettier map. It is a shared file that a ministry, a contractor, and a lender can argue from without inventing the inventory in the room.
01
Bargaining with a service history
A photograph of a used Corolla does not set the price. Title, mileage, and inspection do. Decommissioning packages are the same: the map orients; verified records decide value.
02
Local content under L.I. 2204
Ghanaian contractors can bid what they can see. A public-grade register turns local content from a percentage on a slide into named scopes against named assets.
03
Cost reality after 2018
Late-life and abandonment estimates tightened after 2018 across several basins. Optimism survived longest where nobody could list what still existed. The register is how that habit ends.
How the register works
Six fields. One source of truth.
The console is not the product. The product is a record you can defend: who owns the object, where it is, what was last inspected, how it ends, when that was checked, and what is still missing.
SSoT registerIHO S-121 oriented
01
Location
Coordinates, block, and field context that can be checked against IHO S-121 oriented marine limits.
02
Ownership
Operator, contractor, and residual State interest, with the date that chain was last confirmed.
03
Inspection history
What was examined, by whom, and against which standard — not a logo of a survey firm.
04
End-of-life status
Producing, shut-in, plugged, removed, or unknown. Unknown is a first-class state, not a blank.
05
Last checked
A timestamp on every material claim. A record without a check date is a rumour with formatting.
06
Gaps
Missing files, conflicting sources, and unverified as-builts are listed in the open, so they can be closed.
Markets
Built for any basin. Ghana is the first featured market.
enatlas is not a Ghana portal with a world flag on the footer. The record model is portable. Ghana is where the public case is already visible.
Ghana
First featured market. Saltpond is the proving case: public funds, a statutory fund, and an inventory that still needs to be validated asset by asset.
Any producing basin
The register is not a Ghana-only portal. The same record model — location, ownership, inspection, end-of-life, last-checked, gaps — travels with the licence.
Public peers
NSTA Tracker
United Kingdom
The North Sea Transition Authority publishes well and decommissioning progress that the market can actually inspect.
SODIR FactPages
Norway
The Norwegian Offshore Directorate (formerly NPD) treats wells, facilities, and licences as public facts, not brochure copy.
Security and ISO roadmap
The register is a secured product. This site is not it.
Credentials, well files, and operator data stay at app.enatlas.io. The marketing site does not proxy the register. Assurance is a sequence, not a badge on a landing page.
app.enatlas.io
Now
Secured product, separate surface
The register lives at app.enatlas.io. This site does not host well files, credentials, or operator data.
In progress
ISO/IEC 27001-aligned controls
Access control, logging, and supplier diligence are being documented against the 27001 control set. Certification is a destination, not a claim.
Next
NITA sovereign path
Ghana hosting and assurance can follow NITA guidance so the featured market can keep the system of record inside a sovereign perimeter.
Path
NEMS.eco and IHO S-121
Environmental and marine-cadastral alignment: a register that can sit beside NEMS.eco and speak in S-121 terms when a boundary or liability crosses water.
Access
Open the register when you need the record, not the brochure
The secured product is at app.enatlas.io. Use it for the asset list, the gaps, and the last-checked dates. This site stays the public account of why that list has to exist.