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2006
Africa Oil & Gas Forum
Nov. 29 - Dec. 1, 2006
Marriott Hotel - Bethesda Md.
Agenda Page
Confirmed Ministers List | Mali Case Study Invitation
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2006
12:00 - 6:00 PM
Registration
6:30 - 8:00 PM
Reception
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2006
7:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Registration
7:45 - 8:30 AM
Continental Breakfast
8:30 - 10:00 AM
Expectations & Reality: A Dialogue between Countries & Investors
This session sets the theme for the 2006 Africa Oil & Gas Forum. A high-level panel comprised of African ministers and corporate executives will participate in a moderated discussion on what each group expects to gain from current and future oil and gas investments.
Speakers:
Mr. Stephen Hayes, President, The Corporate Council on Africa
Mr. Dan Yergin, Chairman, Cambridge Energy Research Associates, Inc.
Hon. Buyelwa Patience Sonjica, Minister of Minerals & Energy Affairs, South Africa
10:15 AM - 12:45 PM
Coping with Challenges: The African Perspective
This session will explore the unique challenges that African oil and gas producing countries and oil and gas companies with operations in Africa face, as well as discuss avenues of coping with these challenges and possible solutions. Topics highlighted during the session will include: understanding legal environments; local content; and natural gas in Africa.
African Ministers and key decision makers will discuss the importance of observing sanctity of contracts in the oil & gas industry in Africa. Several successful models will be highlighted, as well as examples of pertinent industry issues and potential solutions.
Panelists will also examine how local inputs and local workforce requirements can be most effectively developed. They will address the question of how to utilize local production inputs for maximum return on a country’s natural resources and national development goals.
Natural gas production poses its own unique challenges and this session will also focus on African countries with natural gas reserves. Safety and security concerns in transporting natural gas, as well as obstacles that must be overcome to export the commodity successfully will be reviewed.
Speakers:
1:00 - 2:00 PM
Buffet Lunch
2:00 - 2:30 PM
Networking Break
2:30 - 3:30 PM
Country Study: Investing in Mali Oil and Gas Potential
Mali Case Study Invitation
This session will focus on the investments opportunities in the oil and gas sectors of Mali and explore the potential of sedimentary basins that comprise Mali.
Speakers:
Hon. Hamed Diane Semega, Minister of Mines, Energy and Water, Republic of Mali
H.E. Abdoulaye Diop, Ambassador, Embassy of Mali
Mr. Mamadou Simpara, General Director, AUREP
Mr. Max De Vietri, General Director, Baraka Petroleum Ltd.
Moderator:
Mr. J. Joseph Grandmaisson, Export-Import Bank of the United States
3:45 - 5:15 PM
African Voices Address the Changing Landscape of Competition
Global competition for scarce oil and gas resources has grown as national oil companies (NOCs) have become increasingly assertive in the global energy market. Backed by state governments, foreign NOCs can offer African oil producing countries additional incentives when bidding for oil and gas contracts, for example, infrastructure development assistance. U.S. companies, however, lack such resources.
African country representatives will provide their views on what they seek from oil countries considering investments in their countries in a set of presentations spanning 90 minutes. Attempts will also be made to share insights on how U.S. oil companies might continue to successfully compete for natural resources in Africa given the new reality of growing international competition for the continent’s oil.
Presentations will be followed by 60 minutes of discussion on the heightened global competition for limited oil blocks and gas contracts in emerging African producer countries. The objective is to assess whether widening competition creates any new, unique challenges for U.S.-African country relations and how this growing competition can best be used to Africa’s and the United States’ economic advantage.
Speakers:
6:00 - 7:30 PM
Dinner for Mali Delegation
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2006
8:45 - 8:45 AM
Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Energy Interdependence: Reexamining Expectations & Reality
Special remarks addressing targets and goals for both U.S. and the African country stakeholders to solidify, improve, and elevate energy partnerships over the coming year.
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Mr. Stephen Hayes, President, The Corporate Council on Africa
Hon. Samuel W. Bodman, Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy
10:15 AM - 12:15 PM
Broadening Producer-Consumer Dialogue
This session will examine the changing global energy environment, the unique challenges of global market supply needs in the wake of the 2005 hurricanes, recent record high global oil prices, and the impact and sustainability of these prices for African producers.
Operating environments, including regulatory frameworks for oil & gas production and exporting will also be explored. External operating environments such as Norway will serve as case studies of ways to both strengthen and advance existing frameworks on the African continent.
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Speakers:
12:30 - 2:00 PM
Closing Lunch:
Energy Interdependence: Reexamining Expectations & Reality
This session will tie together the Forum’s program, specifically addressing targets and goals for both U.S. and the African country stakeholders to solidify, improve, and elevate energy partnerships over the coming year.
2:15 PM
Conference Adjourns
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