KEYFACT Energy
Date: Thursday, September 29, 2022
Time: 13:00 - 1415
Format: Webinar
Featured speaker: Mike Cooper, Technical director, 1st Subsurface Oilfield Management
It may feel quite sudden but East and Southern Africa suddenly has lots of ‘new petroleum’ – oil in Kenya and Uganda, huge gas volumes offshore Tanzania and Mocambique, condensate offshore South Africa, and – most recently – potentially huge amounts of oil and gas offshore Namibia.
Most explorers were willing to dismiss these areas 20 years ago – I remember it!
Whereas the concept of ‘stranded’ oil resources was until a few months ago front and centre for many people in western countries, there’s now much more focus on Energy Security and as a consequence the realization that Africa might have a major role in providing petroleum to Europe and elsewhere.
Every stage of the exploration-appraisal-development-production cycle is visible – from discoveries that have only just been announced, to significant appraisal needed, to developments under way, to ‘first gas imminent’.
Needless to say, this work needs to be done to ‘international standards’, a clear priority being that the host-country citizens benefit from these developments, not just IOCs, resource-hungry nations and an in-country ‘elite’.
It’s clearly in the interest of the economic development of East and Southern Africa countries, and their people, that development of these crude oil and natural gas resources happens, and in a way that alleviates the Energy Poverty that still exists in much of the region.
This webinar will focus on the many facets of these crucial issues.
Agenda
13:00: Karl Jeffery - editor, Finding Petroleum
Welcome & Introduction
13:05: Mike Cooper - Technical director, 1st Subsurface Oilfield Management
The oilfields, gasfields and discoveries of Southern & East Africa - where next for this under-explored region?
13:45: David Bamford - Director, Finding Petroleum
Q&A followed by Close no later than 14:15
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