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14th Africa Independents Forum 2016 – London, 24-26th May 2016, The Waldorf Hilton

LONDON - (EINPresswire via NewMediaWire) - February 11, 2016 -  14th Africa Independents Forum 2016 – London, 24-26th May 2016, The Waldorf Hilton, London, United Kingdom
 
Hosted by Global Pacific & Partners and ITE Group plc

Registration: www.globalpacificpartners.com or www.africa-independentsforum.com
10% discount on registrations made/paid prior 31 March 2016

The 14th Africa Independents Forum 2016, 25-26th May, gathers together leading independents and corporate players worldwide and from across Africa, both listed and unlisted, large and small, established and new entrants, and provides enhanced exposure to the wider Africa-wide upstream industry in oil, and gas, exploration and development, including issues in crude oil and financial markets, engaging equity financiers, banks, private equity and investors found on the AIM and LSE, in the City, Paris and Frankfurt, as well as related service and supply industry parties and transaction advisors, with specialised Africa analysts and geoscience firms drawn from around Africa, or based in Europe, United States, Australia, Asia and elsewhere.



Alongside and within the 14th Africa Independents Forum 2016, we are hosting – with 40 senior executive Speakers:

• 18th Scramble for Africa Strategy Briefing, on Tuesday, 24th May with Presentations by Dr Duncan Clarke, Chairman, Global Pacific & Partners (presented in London for the first time): Separately Bookable


• 75th PetroAfricanus Club Reception: Wednesday 25th May (open to all attendees) with Guest Speaker: Phil Loader, Executive Vice President, Global Exploration, Woodside Energy, Perth, Australia


• 6th Global Women Petroleum & Energy Club Luncheon: Thursday 26th May (open to all attendees, no press due to limited seating) - with Guest Speaker: Irini Katsiani Hughes, Business Development Manager, EMEA, Statoil, London*


• 4th Africa’s Hydrocarbon Arguments Discourse: Shaping Africa’s E&P Future


• Special Panels: on Africa Oil & Energy Finance and Investment featuring key investors and institutions funding and financing equity and debt for corporate oil and gas across Africa – on Thursday, 26th May - (open to all attendees)

The unique Showcase features leading independent companies with acreage and portfolio assets held in the Gulf of Guinea, Northwest Africa, Maghreb-North Africa, Central Africa, Eastern and Southern Africa; and in landlocked and littoral frontier states.
Reshaped and enhanced in 2016; the Forum has 40 speakers, providing an unparalleled corporate insight into current and emerging exploration plays and capital development projects, corporate E&P strategies in-place, the winners and losers, and the unlocking of Africa’s large and yet-to-find hydrocarbon reserves, as well as insights on the state-of-Africa’s geo-economics and political economy of oil, and the key issues shaping the future funding of companies and ventures in Africa’s upstream.

Confirmed Speakers include: 

• Dr Duncan Clarke, Chairman of the Board, Global Pacific & Partners, London, UK
• Pade Durotoye, Chief Executive, Oando Energy Resources, Nigeria
• HE Mohamed Muktar Ibrahim, Minister of Petroleum & Mineral Resources, Federal Republic of Somalia, Mogadishu, Somalia
• Dr. Ahmed Abdel Fattah, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Exploration, EGPC, Cairo, Egypt
• Dr Ian Cloke, Vice President, New Ventures, Tullow Oil, London, UK
• John Austin, General Manager, Sub-Saharan Africa, OMV E&P, London, UK
• Jayne Baird, Vice President, Africa Exploration and Atlantic Margins, Woodside Energy, London, UK
• Thore E Kristiansen, Chief Operating Officer, E&P, and Executive Director, Galp Energia, Lisbon, Portugal
• Ian Gordon, Director, Exploration Strategy, Portfolio & Excellence, Noble Energy, Houston, United States
• Cath Norman, Managing Director, FAR Limited, Melbourne, Australia
• Peter Ntephe, President & Chief Executive Officer, ERHC Energy Inc., Houston, United States
• Mike Lakin, Managing Director, Envoi, London, UK
• Rogers Beall, Executive Chairman, Africa Fortesa Corp, Houston, United States
• Mitch Flegg, Chief Executive Officer, Circle Oil, London, United Kingdom
• Andrew Derksen, Vice President, Lakeside Resources, London, United Kingdom
• Dr Keith Myers, Partner, Richmond Energy Partners Ltd, London, UK
• Roger Carvalho, Managing Partner, SPTEC Advisory, Paris, France
• Shola Adeniran, Director, Compass Energy, London, UK
• Peter Elliot, Director, PVE Consulting Ltd, London, UK
• Keith Hill, President, Chief Executive Officer and Director, Africa Oil Corporation, Nairobi, Kenya
• Mike Doherty, Executive Chairman, Impact Oil & Gas Ltd, Woking, UK
• Bruce Burrows, Chief Financial Officer, Seven Energy International, London, UK
• Gabriel Ollivier, President & Chief Executive Officer, United Hydrocarbon International Corp., Calgary
• Larry Bottomley, Chief Executive Officer, Chariot Oil & Gas Ltd, London, UK
• Kevin Hart, Chief Executive Officer, Bowleven, Edinburgh, UK
• Henrik Poulsen, Senior Vice President, Government Relations, Rystad Energy, Oslo, Norway
• Brian O’Cathain, Chief Executive, Petroceltic International plc, Dublin, Ireland
• Mark Llamas, Managing Director, Acquisitions & Divestitures, FirstEnergy Capital LLP, London, UK
• Stuart Amor, Independent Advisor, London, UK
• Richard Savage, Head of Energy Research, Mirabaud Securities, London, UK
• Rick Lorio, Managing Director & Principal, Energy Investment Company B.V., Den Haag, Netherlands
• David Pilling, Head of Oil & Gas, Nedbank Capital, London, UK
• Fredrik Ohrn, President & Chief Executive Officer, Svenska Petroleum Exploration AB, Stockholm, Sweden
• John Bentley, Non-Executive Director, Africa Energy Corp, Calgary, Canada
• David Fassom, Director, Stellar Energy Advisors, London, UK
• Dr Richard Norris, Oil & Gas Advisor, Helios Investment, London, UK
• Brett Norris, Vice President, Exploration, Transglobe Energy Corp., Calgary, Canada

18th Scramble for Africa: Strategy Briefing, 24th May 2016

Presentations are made by Dr Duncan Clarke (Chairman of the Board, Global Pacific & Partners), the leading strategist, speaker, thinker, writer and author on Africa’s fast-growing, complex upstream game.

• This high-quality Strategy Briefing tracks changing competitor maps and Independents across Africa's exploration landscapes for oil and gas-LNG companies, within the shifting paradigms shaped by governments and national oil companies.
• With deep-level and seasoned insights and critical interpretations on the strategies of around 500 corporate players, in a one-of-a-kind review, revealing Africa's evolving corporate petri-cartography
 
No Press: Machiavelli’s Rules (No Reportage).
 
Duncan Clarke is author of the path-breaking, widely-acclaimed continent-wide, 100-year historiography of the upstream and the exploration game, elaborated in Africa Crude Continent: The Struggle for Africa’s Oil Prize (Profile Books, 2010: with TV-Film Documentary by CNBC-Africa), accessible on the Global Pacific & Partners website, and Africa’s Future (Profile Books, 2012).
 

Jodee Lourensz
Global Pacific & Partners
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