Africa E&P Summit 2020   l   20 - 21 May 2020   l   IET London: Savoy Place, United Kingdom

The Africa E&P Summit and Exhibition brings together Africa’s upstream industry at a world-class venue in London for a unique event shaped for companies active in Africa’s oil & gas game and provides unrivalled insight into the Continent’s fast changing exploration horizon. Hear directly from key players and decision-makers from  corporate players active in Africa through to fast-moving independents, finance, legal and service & supply companies and African governments and NOC’s seeking investors.

Confirmed Speakers & Companies at Africa E&P Summit 2020

Mark Llamas
Managing Director, Corporate Finance, Stifel  

Stifel is a diversified global wealth management and investment banking company focused on building relationships that help individuals, families, and organizations pursue their financial goals.

The iconic image of the bull and bear shows the dedication and spirit of each member of the firm. Stifel are individually and collectively committed to using the forces of the market to benefit their clients.

Keith Myers
Head of E&P, Westwood Global Energy Group  

Westwood Global Energy Group has been built as a new market leading brand in business intelligence and market analytics for the oil and gas industry through a combination of organic investment and targeted acquisitions.

As a new leading brand in the business intelligence and market analytics space, the Westwood Global Energy Group now combines the complementary expertise, products, and services of five of the most respected names in the sector – Richmond Energy Partners, Hannon Westwood, Douglas Westwood, Novas Consulting and JSI Services.

Garrett Soden
President & CEO, Africa Energy Corp  

Africa Energy is a Canadian oil and gas company with exploration assets offshore South Africa and Namibia. The Company is listed on TSX Venture Exchange and Nasdaq First North Growth Market. Africa Energy is part of the Lundin Group of Companies.

Osamede Okhomina
Chief Executive Officer, ADM Energy  

ADM Energy is a natural resources investing company with an existing asset base in Nigeria.

The company is seeking to build on its existing asset base in Nigeria and target other investment opportunities across the West African region in the oil and gas sector with attractive risk reward profiles such as proven nature of reserves, level of historic investment, established infrastructure, route to early cash flow and exploration upside.

 
Renaud Brimont
Senior VP & Head of Consulting - Europe, Middle East and Africa, Wood Mackenzie  

Wood Mackenzie started life in 1923 as a small, relatively unknown, Edinburgh-based stockbroker. By the 1970s, the company had become one of the top three stockbrokers in the UK, renowned for the quality of its equity research.

Today Wood Mackenzie are part of the Verisk family which has broadened their data and analytics platform and strengthened their ability to provide intelligence that helps drive growth and serve thousands of industry market leaders.

Sola Adepetun
Senior Partner - ACAS-Law, Chairman - Standard Chartered Bank Nigeria, Acas-Law  

ACAS-LAW is renowned for providing world-class legal and business advisory services across an array of legal practice areas to different clients that include blue-chip domestic and international clients, foreign government agencies and individuals.

Al Njoo
CEO, Madagascar Oil  

Madagascar Oil is an AIM listed company focused on the development of heavy oil and conventional oil & gas deposits in Madagascar. The Company has significant exploration and development rights for oil and gas in Madagascar, and  the Group's two principal fields, Tsimiroro and Bemolanga, have been shown to have multi-billion barrel resource volumes in place. Field tests and studies suggest that a large portion of the Company's Tsimiroro heavy oil assets have excellent potential for economic development.

John Anderson
Asset Manager - Africa Exploration, Genel Energy 

Genel Energy is an independent oil and gas exploration and production company listed on the main market of the London Stock Exchange.

The Company, with headquarters in London and offices in Ankara and Erbil, is the largest holder of reserves and resources in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, where it operates the Taq Taq and Tawke oil fields, in which it owns 44% and 25% stake respectively.

The company also has exploration acreage in Morocco, at the offshore Sidi Moussa licence, and Somaliland, where it recently bought out its partner East Africa Resource Group in the SL10B13 onshore block, estimated to hold around 200mln barrels of oil.

 
Tracey Henderson
Chief Exploration Officer, Kosmos Energy, Dallas 

Kosmos Energy is a full-cycle deepwater independent oil and gas exploration and production company focused on the Atlantic Margins. The company’s key assets include production offshore Ghana, Equatorial Guinea and U.S. Gulf of Mexico, as well as a world-class gas development offshore Mauritania and Senegal. Kosmos also maintain a sustainable exploration program balanced between proven basin infrastructure-led exploration (Equatorial Guinea and U.S. Gulf of Mexico), emerging basins (Mauritania, Senegal and Suriname) and frontier basins (Cote d'Ivoire, Namibia and Sao Tome and Principe).

Tom Hickey
CEO,  Boru Energy, London 

Boru Energy is an oil and gas exploration and production business.

The company’s investment goal will be to assemble a portfolio of primarily non-operated interests in oil & gas production assets. The potential portfolio will be spread across several Sub-Saharan Africa countries and will consist of assets with significant commercialisation potential and where the operator is a high quality national, international or independent oil and gas company.

Philip Birch
Exploration Director, Impact Oil and Gas 

Impact is a privately owned oil and gas exploration company, dedicated to discovering new potential in underexplored sedimentary basins offshore Africa.

The company acquired its first asset, the Tugela South Exploration Right, offshore South Africa in 2011 and has subsequently expanded its asset base across the offshore margins of South and West Africa. It has since partnered with ExxonMobil and Equinor (South Africa), CNOOC (AGC - between Senegal and Guinea Bissau) and Total (Namibia and South Africa). It is currently seeking a partner in its Gabonese assets. The company's current portfolio covers a combined area of over 90,000 km² (gross).

Dr Enzo Insalaco
VP Exploration Africa, Total E&P 

With operations in more than 130 countries, Total engages in all aspects of the petroleum industry, including Upstream operations (oil and gas exploration, development and production, LNG) and Downstream operations (refining, marketing and the trading and shipping of crude oil and petroleum products). The company employ almost 100,000 people worldwide.

Total's Upstream business encompasses oil and natural gas exploration, development and production, along with coal, gas and power activities. Exploration and Production has activities in more than 50 countries with production in 30 of these countries. The company's main production regions are the North Sea, Africa and the Middle East, followed by Southeast Asia and North and South America.

Jasper Peijs
Vice President Exploration - Africa, BP 

BP is one of the world's largest petroleum and petrochemicals companies. The company's main activities are exploration for and production of crude oil and natural gas; oil refining, marketing, supply and transportation; and manufacturing and marketing of petrochemicals.

In addition, BP also has a growing activity in gas, power and renewables and in solar power generation. BP has well established operations in Europe, North and South America, Asia, Australasia and Africa.

The company's principal areas of production are Angola, Argentina, Australia, Azerbaijan, Egypt, Oman, Trinidad, the UAE, the UK and the US.

Keith Hill
President, Africa Oil Corp 

Africa Oil is a Canadian oil and gas company with producing and development assets in deep-water offshore Nigeria; development assets in Kenya; and an exploration/appraisal portfolio in Africa and Guyana. The Company is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and on Nasdaq Stockholm under the symbol "AOI".

In February 2020, Africa Oil announced a significant discovery at the Brulpadda-1AX well on Block 11B/12B offshore South Africa. Africa Oil holds an indirect interest in the project as a result of its equity interest in Africa Energy (35%) and Impact Oil and Gas (30%). 

Pam Darwin
Vice President - Africa, ExxonMobil 

ExxonMobil has leading positions in nearly all the major exploration and production areas in the world and in the newest opportunities, including the Gulf of Mexico, offshore West Africa and the Caspian Sea. Exxon Mobil Corporation's upstream business is organized into five global companies: Exploration, Development, Production, Gas Marketing, and Research.

The Company is the world's largest non-government producer and reserves holder. ExxonMobil's portfolio consists of discovered oil and gas resources of 70 billion oil-equivalent barrels, activities in some 50 countries and a leading acreage position in the world's most promising exploration areas.

Andrew Knott
CEO, Savannah Petroleum

Savannah Petroleum PLC is an AIM listed oil and gas company with exploration and production assets in Niger and Nigeria. 

Savannah’s flagship assets include the R1/R2 and R3/R4 PSCs, which cover c.50% of the highly prospective Agadem Rift Basin (“ARB”) of South East Niger, acquired in 2014/15. The Company is, among western companies, an early mover into this emerging oil and gas province, which is expected to see significant oil and gas infrastructure build-out over the coming years led by the Asian national oil company CNPC.

Profiles of all the companies above are included in KeyFacts Energy's 'Energy Country Review' online resource.

REGISTER