It's very exciting to contemplate the reemergence of offshore oil & gas, especially deep water, with momentous decisions to be taken in corporate offices in Houston, London, Stavanger, Paris etc, as enthusiastically greeted here:
https://www.rystadenergy.com/news/offshore-is-back-more-than-200-billion-of-greenfield-investments-expected-by-2025
but I'm not sure that solving 'energy poverty' in Africa by supplying gas to needy domestic markets sits at the top of the Majors' priorities - I hope they will prove me wrong!
Maybe onshore E&P in Sub-Saharan Africa offers a way forward, and this will be the focus of our two Sub-Saharan webinars during 1H 2024.
This is the 1st of them and it focuses on southern Africa onshore, especially Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, perhaps Zambia, with companies such as ReCon Africa, Monitor Exploration, Invictus Energy active:
Read our report on the webinar
|
13:00
|
 
Karl Jeffery - editor - Finding Petroleum
Welcome & Introducton
Karl Jeffery is editor and co-founder of Digital Energy Journal, and conference producer of Finding Petroleum. He is also publisher of Carbon Capture Journal and Tanker Operator, and co-founder of Digital Ship, a publishing and events company covering digital technology for the deep sea maritime industry. He has a BEng in chemical engineering from Nottingham University
Finding Petroleum
Finding Petroleum was established to help the oil and gas industry network, and stay up to date on the latest technological developments. It does this via hosting regular events and with an online social network of nearly 10,000 members.
|
|
|
13:10
|
 
Robin Sutherland - Technical Lead - Monitor Exploration Ltd
Monitor (and Invictus) exploration campaigns in Namibia and Zimbabwe, and an update on South Africa (Title TBC)
Robin has a degree in Geophysics (BSc Hons Edinburgh) and has been exploring for oil, gas and minerals on the African continent for over 35 years.
He has held a variety of technical and leadership roles in African businesses, joining the highly respected Energy Africa team in Cape Town in 1997, prior to the transformational discoveries in Equatorial Guinea, and leading Tullow’s exploration team through the discovery and appraisal of the Jubilee and TEN fields in Ghana before becoming Tullow’s exploration GM for the continent in 2015.
Robin joined the Monitor team as a senior adviser in 2021 and has since contributed significantly to the company’s strategy, business plan and technical understanding.
Monitor Exploration Ltd
Monitor Exploration Limited (MEL) is a UK private exploration company, established in 2008, for onshore Oil and Gas exploration in Africa. MEL was formed by Geodynamics WorldWide (GWW), a specialist oil service company. MEL was created to take advantage of:
Direct access to geophysical technologies, managed and operated by GWW and its partners (Airbus Defence, E&P Geofield), that reduce risk,time and cost to identify hydrocarbons directly and provide reconnaissance structural imaging:
Remote Sensing
Passive Seismic
Surface Geochem
Magneto-Tellurics
Sedimentary basins in Africa that are relatively under explored but prospective geologically and where our partners have past experience in terms of geological and geophysical data.
Countries that are prepared to offer attractive PSA terms, and most importantly are not restrictive or onerous on work programmes, at least in the initial phase, and allow the Oil company the option, as opposed to the obligation, to go to the next phase of commitments to drilling wells
Lack of competition from independent companies for onshore licences, due to lack of capital and practice in alternative technologies
Scope to obtain substantial initial interests in licenses, e.g. over 70%, whilst keeping some local interest to assist in managing local
representation
Local knowledge in our team
|
|
|
13:40
|
 
David Bamford - Director - Future Energy Partners Ltd
Q&A followed by Close no later than 1415
David Bamford is well known around the oil & gas industry both as an explorer and a geophysicist. He holds a Physics degree from the University of Bristol and a Ph.D in Geological Sciences from the University of Birmingham.
Since 2004, he has been a non-executive director at Tullow Oil plc, being recruited for this position especially for his exploration knowledge. He serves on the Nominations and Remuneration Committees, and was chairman of the latter, and Senior Independent Director, for 3 years prior to his retire from the board at the end of April 2014.
He joined the board of Premier Oil in May 2014.
He retired from BP plc in 2003, his last four positions being Chief Geophysicist (1990-1995), Business Unit Leader (General Manager) for first West Africa and then Norway (1995-1999), and finally Head of Exploration until 2003.
He has served on the boards of Paras Ltd, a small exploration and IS/IT consulting company in which he held 22% equity, until its sale to RPS Energy in 2008 and Welltec a/s, a Danish well engineering company, as the nominee of the private equity investor Riverside.
From 2012 to 201 he was on the board of ASX-quoted Australia Oriental Energy as a non-executive director.
He was a founder of Richmond Energy Partners, a small oil & gas research house, and several media companies that focus on the oil & gas sector, and has served as an advisor to Alliance Bernstein, Opus Executive, the Parkmead Group plc, and Kimmeridge Energy LLP. Since retiring from BP, he has undertaken asset and company valuation projects for investment banks, hedge funds and small oil companies.
Future Energy Partners Ltd
Future Energy Partners (FEP) is a unique oil and gas advisory service which prides itself on technical excellence in selected fields and supplementing business management and leadership; in the face of uncertainty.
We offer truthful, professional opinion and advice; no playback of what you already know, and no spin.
FEP was founded by 4 senior industry practitioners who consider the challenges faced by today's oil and gas environment are going to require herculean acts of leadership and technical skill in a transforming, transitioning, industry, in order to maintain an energy supply that is sustainable and even recognisable compared to recent history.
Similarly nations developing an oil and gas industry face related challenges as they seek to maximise the benefits of this new wealth-creating opportunity - in a responsible manner.
Global reach
FEP actively participates in the facilitation and conduct of seminars and webinars worldwide, for example in conjunction with its associate partner Finding Petroleum.
Our presence reaches parts of the globe, such as: the UK, the USA, Sub-Saharan Africa, with partners wherever we work.
|
|
Ron Daniel
Staff Geologist
-
Suriname
|
Ian Gath
Product Owner
Halliburton
Spain
|
Roger Doery
Retired
Retired
United Kingdom
|
ALASDAIR DUNCAN
DIRECTOR
ALBA ENERGY
Singapore
|
Mischa Gehlen
Petroleum Geochemist
IGI Ltd
United Kingdom
|
Richard Walker
Geophysical Consultant
Richard Walker Geoscience Ltd
United Kingdom
|
Peter Manoogian
Manager
ARZ Resources
United States
|
Miles Leggett
Independent
United Kingdom
|
Erik Meyer
S&P Global
United States
|
Paul Keane
Business Development
Brightskies Geoscience
United Kingdom
|
Nick Steel
Consultant
Independent
United Kingdom
|
Gerardo Gaitan
Basin Researcher
S&P Global
United Kingdom
|
Andrew Muzan
Senior Processing Geophysicist
Bulwark Services Limited
Nigeria
|
FELIPE RODRIGUEZ MONREAL
Basin and Petrroleum Systems Analysis Independent Consultant
Independent Consultant
United Kingdom
|
Mike Rego
Managing Director
Septima Energy Pte. Ltd.
United Kingdom
|
Fearghal Hayes
General Manager Geoscience, Europe Africa
CNOOC International
United Kingdom
|
Abimbola Durogbitan
GM Geosciences
Independent Consultant/Nigerian Association of Petroleum Exolorationists UK/EUROPE COORDINATOR
United Kingdom
|
Denis MOUGENOT
Chief Geophysicist - retired as consultant
Sercel-retired
France
|
David Boote
DBConsulting Ltd
United Kingdom
|
Alexander Ball
Geophysicist
Perenco
United Kingdom
|
Julia Kotulova
senior geologist
Slovak Academy of Sciences
Slovakia
|
Raffaele Di Cuia
Technical Director
Delta Energy Limited Ltd
Italy
|
Max Shaw-Champion
Chief Geophysicist
Perenco
|
Umut Isikalp
PhD Researcher
UiB
Norway
|
Greg Coleman
CEO
Future Energy Partners
United Kingdom
|
Sebastien Duc
Group Geoscience Manager
Perenco
United Kingdom
|
Hugh Ebbutt
Associated Director
WSS Energy Consulting
United Kingdom
|
Kerri Wilson
Senior Petroleum Geologist
Getech
United Kingdom
|
Carlo Buscaglia
Subsurface Team Lead
Petrofac
United Kingdom
| |