David Bamford, Director of Content at Finding Petroleum, reviews the successful Lunch’n Think Webinars on Southern Africa:

Over the last few weeks we have hosted reasonably successful Lunch’n Think Webinars on Southern Africa.

You can find the videos of these two events by clicking on the links below:

Is Offshore South Africa an emerging 'Super Basin'?

How can we responsibly source more gas in Southern Africa?

Two significant issues arose from the presentations and Q&A:

Technical Uncertainties: Offshore, do we understand what the source rock is and/or its maturation and/or the resulting Petroleum Systems; Onshore, how can we understand the Unconventional potential given the lack of conventional production history, and underpinning geochemical and geophysical data.

Political ‘Road Blocks’: 1) The reported South African ‘demand’ for a 20% Free Carry and 2) the active discouragement of OECD investors with respect to “fossil fuels”.

How is it possible to build a Southern African E&P – focused on Gas perhaps – given these substantive issues?

We are devoting our next Southern Africa Lunch’n Think Webinar (on 16th July) to addressing these issues.

Click here to REGISTER this event.

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