Meet the corporate players, finance world, and senior management, to discuss ventures, current strategy and deal flow

Hosted by Global Pacific & Partners and ITE Group plc
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 Registration:
www.globalpacificpartners.com  or  www.africa-independentsforum.com
- 10% discount on registrations made/paid prior 31 March 2016

Conference Program
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, Global Paicifc & Partners will be hosting – with 40 senior executive Speakers:

•   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) - 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)

This 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
 

Contact: Babette van Gessel; babette@glopac-partners.com
Amanda Wellbeloved; amanda@glopac-partners.com

Global Pacific & Partners, established by earliest origins in Africa, has from 1978 shaped an unmatched track record in Africa and inside the world oil industry, on several counts.

The senior partners of the firm have enjoyed a combined 70 years in partnership within the industry over this time, with over 40 years ensemble for the Chairman and Chief Executive (Duncan Clarke and Babette van Gessel), making this the longest private partnership in world oil and gas across the firm's portfolio, and in Africa-wide and global upstream ventures, whether within the developing world or elsewhere.

This journey across the world upstream has taken the existing partners to over 125 countries on its corporate and business endeavours, with over one million miles travelled to accomplish the tasks behind building the firm's global portfolio.

The firm divested its global conference suite of world-class events, conducted for over two decades, in a transaction executed with ITE Plc, a large London-listed company in early 2015.

Global Pacific & Partners continues managing and building its own proprietary portfolio in Africa and around the world, holding its core and retained assets in advisory practice, research, knowledge banks, public and in-house strategy briefings, senior executive clubs, stakeholder and investor relations, private client news, global oil media relationships, along with its long-established suite of first-class Africa-wide and global oil and gas platforms, senior executive networks and industry entities.

Jodee Lourensz
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2514 BR, The Hague
The Netherlands

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