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2006
Africa Oil & Gas Forum
Nov. 29 - Dec. 1,
2006
Marriott Hotel - Bethesda Md.
Agenda Page
Confirmed
Ministers List
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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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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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