UNCTAD 11th African Oil and Gas, Trade and Finance Conference & Exhibition,
23-25 May 2007, Kenyatta International Conference Centre Nairobi, Kenya
Central Theme: Interface between Hydrocarbons and Finance- Draft Programme Outline
(Simultaneous Translation E/F/Sp)
Day 1
23 May 07
Session
1
(8:45-11:00)
Coffee Break
Session
2
(11:30-12:30)
Lunch
Session
3
(14:00-15.30)
(*TBC)
PLENARY
East Africa Upstream Potential: Chair: Hon. Kiraitu Murungi, Minister of Energy, Kenya
- WEC Scenarios, Gerald Doucet, Secretary General, World Energy Council
- Positioning Kenya as a service hub for Africa’s E&P sector, Mwendia Nyaga, Acting Managing Director, National Oil Corporation of Kenya
- Peter Grant, General Manager, Woodside Energy Ltd, Australia
- Growing China's exploration acreages in East Africa, Wu Keqiang, Senior geologist, CNOOC Africa Ltd
- Chris Matchette Downes, Vice President Business Development, East Africa Exploration, UK
Opening Ceremony. H.E. Hon. Mwai Kibaki, President of Kenya, Hon. Kiraitu Murungi, Minister of Energy, Hon. Amos Kimunya, Minister for Finance Kenya, Dr. S. Panitchpakdi,
Secretary General UNCTAD, Lakshmi Puri , Director, Division on International Trade in Goods and Services, and Commodities, UNCTAD, Hon. Wangari Maathai, 2004 Nobel laureate
ROOM A
Financing Africa's hydrocarbons development: Current trends
and issues for the future
Chair:
ROOM B
Natural gas: Prospects and Opportunities
Chair: Hon. William Ngeleje , Deputy Minister of
Energy and Minerals, Tanzania
ROOM C
Oil procurement and distribution systems in Africa
Chair: Hon. Mike Nyambuya, Minister of Energy and
Power Development, Zimbabwe.
- Refining Modernization, Rob Tims, Director, Oil and Gas
Standard Chartered Bank UK.
- Commoditizing carbon for emissions reduction in Africa's oil
and gas sector-Introducing Afreximbank carbon financing
programme, Okey Oramah, Director, Planning and Development,
Afrexim, Egypt.
- Hartwig Schuen, Executive Director, Capital Markets &
Commodity finance, West LB, Germany.
- Options for stranded gas in Africa: The CNG
alternative, Angus Campbell, Head OSG Gas Strategic
Business Unit, USA.
- Gas to power in Tanzania, Yona Killagane, Managing
Director & Gabriel Bujulu, Prinicpal Petroleum
Engineer, Tanzania Petroleum Development
Corporation.
- Capitalizing on gas to liquids technology to monetize
gas reserves-Experience from South Africa, Frank van
Baarsel, Projects Manager-Business Development
PetroSA.
- Financing LNG growth: Learning from Nigeria's
success, Victor Eromosele, GM Finance, NLNG Ltd.
- Challenges and reforms in the procurement system of CAR,
Hon. Sylvain Ndoutingai , Minister of Energy Mines and
Water.
- The oil tender system in Kenya: Can it meet demand?
Peter Nduru, Ministry of Energy, Kenya.
- Benoît Sampo , Secretary General, SONABHY, Burkina
Faso.
- Amadou Dioffo, CEO, SONIDEP, Níger.
Coffee Break
Session
4
(15.45-16.30)
PLENARY
Hydrocarbon Resources Management
Chair: Hon. Erkki Nghimtina, Minster of Mines and Energy, Namibia
- Strategies for sustainable development of hydrocarbon resources: A perspective from Equatorial Guinea, Candido Nsue Ocomo, Director General, GEPetrol, Eq. Guinea
- Benvenutta Henriksen, Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, Norway.
Dinner
GALA DINNER hosted by National Oil Buses leave from conference centre to venue immediately after session ends
Day 2
24 May 07
Session
5
(8:45-10:30)
Coffee Break
Session
6
(11:00-12:45)
ROOM A
ROOM B
ROOM C
Infrastructure development and downstream deregulation
Chair: Hon. Joseph Kofi Adda*, Minister of Energy, Ghana
Using gas for Africa's energy future
Chair: Hon. Esperanca Bias, Minister of Mineral
Resources, Mozambique
- Kenya-Uganda pipeline project and expansion plans, Senior
Rep., Tamoil.
- Transborder infrastructure projects: The case of West African
Gas Pipeline project, Débo -K'mba Barandao, Coordinator, West
Africa Gas Pipeline Authority, Nigeria.
- Senior Rep. SONATRACH, Algeria
- Downstream Restructuring: Country experience, George
Wachira, CEO, Petroleum Institute of East Africa, Kenya.
-Thierry Genthialon, Chief Operating Officer, Oryx
Oil & Gas, Switzerland.
- LP Gas: The obvious alternative for Africa, Michael
Kelly, Director of Market Development, World LP Gas
Association, France.
- Issues and challenges, Siyanga Malumo, Director,
Fieldstone Africa, South Africa.
Financing the oil and gas supply chain
Chair: Jean Louis Ekra, President, Afrexim Bank, Egypt
Meeting the challenges of increased oil and gas
revenues
Chair:
Legal issues in oil and gas development
Chair: Hon. Gabriel Nguema Lima, Vice Minister of Mines
and Energy, Equatorial Guinea
- International experiences in managing the risks and
realising the opportunities of oil and gas revenue
management, Paul Stevens, Centre for Energy,
Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy, University of
Dundee, UK.
- Options for investing revenue windfalls and meeting
future development, Jean-François Casanova, CEO,
Strategic Risk Management, France.
- Economic implications of high crude oil price - A
challenge for African Producers' Petroleum Revenue
Management, Cornelius Alalade, Petroconsult Energy,
UK.
- Oil revenues and governance, Sumayya Hassan
Athmani. Legal Manager, National Oil, Kenya.
- Production sharing contracts, Marc Hammerson, Partner,
Stephenson Harwood, UK.
- Joint Development Zones and economic development, A
case study, Lucie Bourthomieux, Avocat à la cour, France,
- Investing with certainty: Stability under South Africa's new
oil and gas regulatory law, Peter Leon, Partner, Webber
Wentzen Bowens, South Africa.
- Jonas Moberg, Head of Secretariat, Extractive Industries
Transparency Initiative (EITI)
- Unlocking upstream financing for Africa's oil sector
development Laure Pironneau, Regional Head, Upstream &
Sturctured Finance, Africa & Middle East, and Michael Jay,
Global Head, Upstream & Structured Finance, Energy Group
Natixis, France.
- IDB role in trade financing in the energy sector in Sub Saharan
Africa, Nazeem Noordali, Head for Sub Saharan Africa, Trade
Finance & Promotion Dept., Islamic Development Bank, Saudi
Arabia.
- Hassan Farah, Chief Investment Officer, African Development
Bank, Tunisia.
Lunch
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Managing effects of oil price volatility
Chair: Hon. Amos Kimunya, Minister for Finance Kenya
- Africa: A growing influence on oil pricing, Jorge
Montepeque, Platts Global Director, Market Assessments
UK
- Effects of oil price volatility on the Kenyan economy, Eric
Aligula, Senior Policy Analyst, Kenya Institute of Public
Policy Research & Analysis, Kenya.
- Exposure to oil price risk and what to do about it, Rachid
Amui, Energy Focal Point, UNCTAD, Switzerland.
- Strategic and tactical hedging of the State trading
corporation, Ranjit Soomarooah, General Manager, State
Trading Corporation, Mauritius.
Day 2
24 May 07
Session
7
(14:00-15:45)
ROOM A
ROOM B
Is there a future for Africa's refineries? Meeting demand and future plans
Chair:
New frontiers of Exploration activity in Africa
Chair:
- Joel Dervain, Director General, SIR, & President of African Refiners Association, Côte
- Don Riaroh, Chief Geologist, Ministry of Energy, Kenya.
d'Ivoire.
- Sudan upstream, Mohamed Zayed Awad, Exploration Manager, Advanced Petroleum
- Viability of small refineries, John Mrutu, Managing Director, Kenya Petroleum Refineries
Company (APCO), Sudan.
Ltd..
- Uganda upstream, Senior Rep. tbc.
- A.L. Yar'Adua, Group Executive Director, Refining and Petrochemicals, Nigerian National - Senior Rep. ROC Oil, Australia
Petroleum Corporation, Nigeria.
- FMC Technologies -Subsea system solutions, Colin Wilson, Sales Manager, Central and
- Financing African refineries: issues & challenges in funding working capital & capital East Africa, Kenya.
expenditure requirements, Guillaume Leenhardt, Regional Head, Energy Commodities,
Export & Project Department (ECEP), BNP Paribas, France.
.
- Gary Still, Executive Director, CITAC, UK.
ROOM A
ROOM B
ROOM C
Coffee Break
Session
8
(16:15-18:00)
Local content: Development of local linkages for the oil and gas
industry
Chair:
Cooperation on oil and gas developments in Africa
Chair: Hon. Angelina Djani, Deputy Minister of
Energy and Mines, Sudan
Improving upstream and downstream services to meet
sustainable development in the Oil & Gas sector
Chair:
- The development multiplier by local industries - How can it be
achieved? Adeniran Aderogba, Chief Executive, Calag Capital
(Nigeria) Limited.
- Strategic enterprise development by local players in a
competitive market, Paul Andrew, President/ CEO AME&T
Group, Switzerland.
- Financing local content vehicles in Africa's oil and gas sector:
Lessons of experience and innovations, Okey Oramah, Director,
Planning and Development, Afrexim, Egypt.
- Experience of Angola*: Partnership between NOC and IOCs,
tbc.
- China-Africa energy cooperation.
- India-Africa energy cooperation, Ashok Dhar, Senior
Vice President, Reliance Industries Limited, India.
- l’Agence de gestion et de cooperation entre le Senegal
et la Guinee Bissau (AGC): A dynamic example of
sub-regional economic integration, Julio Mamadu
Baldé, Secretary General AGC, Senegal.
- Walter Englert, Deputy Secretary General, GermanAfrican Business Association, Germany.
- Skills shortage in the O&G Industry, Antoine Rostand,
Global Managing Director, Schlumberger Business
Consulting.
- A sustainable and safe refined products distribution in
Africa, Patrick Obath, Managing Director, Shell Kenya Ltd.
- The role of government, Ali Mohamed, Deputy Director,
General National Environmental Management Authority of
Kenya (MENA).
Dinner
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Day 3
25 May 07
Session
9
(9-10:45)
PLENARY
Energy Security and development
Chair: Hon. Mohamed Boutaleb, Minister of Energy and Mines, Morocco
- Philip Niyongabo , Africa Union, Ethiopia
- Paul Sullivan, Georgetown University Washington D.C, USA.
- Energy mix. Hussein El Haq, Executive Director, AFREC, Algeria.
- IEA*, tbc.
Coffee Break
Session
10
(11:15-12:30)
Lunch
Session
11
(2:00 - 3:30)
Working together for Africa's future Chair
Ministers and high level representatives
Equatorial Guinea Potential
Chair: Hon. Atanasio Ela Ntugu, Minister of Mines Industry and Energy, Equatorial Guinea
- Hon. Gabriel Nguema Lima, Vice Minister, Ministry of Mines and Energy, Equatorial Guinea
- Juan Antonio Ndong Ongo, Director General, Sonagas, Equatorial Guinea
Session
12
(3.45 - 4:15)
Closing & Hand over Ceremony to Next Host
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