North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean

Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Lebanon, Cyprus, Israel 0

Monday, December 12, 2016, London, The Geological Society

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They vary in scale but every country along the southern edge of the Mediterranean has an oil & gas industry – from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya, to Egypt, Israel, Lebanon (and Cyprus).

And the maturity varies too, from rank exploration to gas development projects to mature oil production.

As assets each is interesting in its own right, and we welcome presentations on them.

There is also a question as to whether there is any regional theme other than geography and, arguably, politics?


Note: This event continues from our past Africa events held in:

January 2016 - download our report view the agenda view the delegates list

October 2015 "Opportunities in the Middle East and the Levant" - download our report view the agenda view the delegates list

January 2015 - view the agenda view the delegates list

Agenda

9:30 Andrew Lodge - Principal - StrategicFit Welcome & Introduction Andrew is now a Principal at StrategicFit and a Non-Executive Director at Egdon Resources. Previously, he joined Premier Oil plc’s Board as Exploration Director in April 2009 from Hess where he was Vice President, Exploration, responsible for Europe, North Africa, Asia and Australia for nine years. Prior to that, he was Vice President, Exploration, Asset Manager and Group Exploration Advisor for BHP Petroleum, based in London and Australia. Prior to joining BHP Petroleum, Andrew worked for BP as a geophysicist. He has an honours degree in Mining Geology from the University of Wales and a Masters in Applied Geophysics from the University of Leeds. He is a fellow of the Geological Society. He retired from Premier Oil in June 2015. StrategicFit StrategicFit is a strategy consulting firm specialising in the upstream oil and gas industry. We help companies, licence partnerships and stakeholders make difficult decisions they can be confident in. Through decision analysis, a collaborative strategy process and sector expertise, we'll give you a clearer way forward.

9:50 Greg Coleman - CEO - Independent Resources Plc Morocco to Egypt overview - and the case for regional consolidation Independent Resources Plc Independent Resources plc is an AIM quoted company with expertise in the geology of, and operations in, the Mediterranean basin. It is focused on acquiring and developing production and low risk exploration opportunities.

10:25 Arthur Snell - Managing Director, Intelligence - Protection Group International The political, security and regulatory landscape across North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean Talk Description. Arthur will speak about the current political, security and regulatory landscape across North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean. In a period of particular uncertainty and instability in this region, his talk will include Algeria’s looming succession crisis, Libya’s struggle for political stability and Egypt under Sisi. He will also assess the ongoing threat of Islamic State and the persistent presence of Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb. The newer markets of Lebanon, Israel and Cyprus provide a contrasting perspective, as does Morocco and Tunisia, where the challenges relate less to security and more to understanding the regulatory and contracting landscapes. Arthur was in the UK’s foreign service for 16 years in a variety of intelligence and diplomatic roles. This work took him to some of the world’s most challenging environments including Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan, Nigeria and Zimbabwe. From 2011-2014 he was Britain’s Ambassador to Trinidad & Tobago where he worked to support a range of major UK oil and gas companies as well as other significant inward investors. Since 2014 Arthur has worked in the business intelligence industry, managing a range of complex projects for extractives, multinationals and financial services clients. A published expert on international security and policy issues, Arthur has first class degrees from the universities of Oxford and London. Protection Group International PGI is a privately owned UK business offering integrated, intelligence-led risk management solutions. PGI specialise globally in the secure protection of our clients' assets: human, physical, legal, intellectual property, financial and operational.

11:00 Coffee & Tea; Exhibits, followed by: EGYPT

11:20 Øystein Lie - Project Manager MC Middle East and CIS - PGS Exploration opportunity offshore Egypt Talk Description. Graduated from Curtin University of Technology, Australia with a MSc. in Exploration Geophysics in 1998. Employed by PGS and has worked in different positions. Started in the Data Processing department in 1999 and moved into the MultiClient department in 2007. Currently he is Project Manager for the Middle East and CIS group based in the headquarters of PGS in Oslo. Øystein has been involved in and developed projects in Russia, Greece, Cyprus, Lebanon and Egypt. PGS PGS is a leading, international, marine geophysical company. Our business is technology driven and we provide a range of products and services including MultiClient data, as well as tailored acquisition, and imaging. Our large, modern data library comprises ~850 000 sq. km 3D and ~670 000 km of 2D seismic data that targets areas of high prospectivity, where oil companies have potential to access acreage. Around 44% of the 3D data in our library and 60% of the 2D data have been acquired with multisensor GeoStreamer® technology. That proportion is growing. PGS is the industry's most experienced provider of multisensor broadband data. Worldwide, PGS operates three larger sales and imaging hubs in Europe and North America, and has local offices in 13 countries. The PGS headquarters is in Oslo, Norway and the PGS share is listed on the Oslo stock exchange (OSE: PGS). PGS activities are organized into three business areas. .Sales & Imaging promotes and sells seismic services including tailored acquisition contracts, MultiClient library data, and imaging services .New Ventures designs and markets new MultiClient campaigns and manages strategic projects .Operations & Technology plans, manages and executes all our acquisition projects, and develops new technology solutions

11:55 Neil Hodgson - VP geoscience - Searcher Seismic A sight for Zohr-eyes – the search for the next North African carbonate super-giant Neil Hodgson is VP Searcher Seismic, a company which provides high quality exploration data and leading edge tech to the global exploration industries. He is formerly executive VP geoscience with Spectrum ASA, and exploration manager at Matra Petroleum, Premier Oil and GB Group. Searcher Seismic Searcher provides high quality exploration data and leading edge tech to the global exploration industries. Our data library includes seismic, potential fields, multi-beam, coring and well data derived from geophysical and geological projects that we operate world wide.

12:30 Lunch & Exhibits, followed by OFFSHORE

13:00 Alex Birch-Hawkins - Interpretation Geophysicist - TGS Israel: Seeing Deeper - Imaging new play concepts sub-salt following Clari-Fi Broadband reprocessing Talk Description. TGS have recently completed the PSTM reprocessing of the Israel 2001 2D Seismic survey. Significant uplift in data quality from 15 years technological advances will be demonstrated through vintage and current seismic displays. This has enabled a much better image of the deeper section which has brought in to focus more play concepts and better trap definition in both proven and the potential new plays. This talk will highlight the improvements and explore new geological thinking in the Levant Basin. An Interpretation Geophysicist with six years' experience in the oil and gas industry; specialist in 2D and 3D seismic interpretation, play fairway analysis, prospect generation, depth conversion, volumetrics, well log analysis and AVO analysis. Alex has worked on multi-client and proprietary projects for international operators, seismic survey acquisition planning and late sales. Project areas include mature and frontier basins across Africa, NW Europe, the Americas and Oceania TGS TGS is the world's largest geoscience data company, known for its asset-light, multi-client business model and global data library. Our primary business is to provide geoscience data to energy companies worldwide. We offer extensive global libraries that include seismic data, magnetic and gravity data, multibeam and coring data, digital well logs and production data. Additionally, the company offers advanced processing and imaging services, interpretation products and data integration solutions.

13:35 Sigrun Stanton - Regional Geoscientist - Landmark Exploration Insights An investigation into the Cenozoic fault timing along the North African offshore margin: Implications for the prediction of offshore plays Talk Description. To date, exploration success along the offshore North African margin has been highly variable, with major successes largely limited to the Tunisian and Libyan Pelagian province in the 1970s and the more recent offshore and deep-water gas discoveries of the Levant and Nile Delta basins. A few smaller finds have been made in the offshore of western Morocco and north-eastern Libya, but further exploration has frequently led to failure elsewhere. Nevertheless, since ENI’s Zohr discovery in 2015, there has been a renewed interest in the offshore North African margin, attracting potential future investment in the deeper water areas and offshore frontier basins. Much of this variability in exploration success is driven by a heterogeneous and complex structural history between the western, central, and eastern Mediterranean basins, leading to difficulties in the prediction and assessment of play types. The importance of understanding the tectonic history of the Mediterranean is therefore essential when considering the future exploration potential of this margin. Reconstructing the geodynamic context and establishing the relative timing of associated structural events can be used to predict the presence and timing of the various play elements and plays that may be present in the underexplored and frontier offshore basins, as well as providing potential new plays in mature basins. Exploration risk can also be reduced, by highlighting areas where structural events have had an adverse or positive effect on the petroleum system. Landmark Exploration Insights Landmark Exploration Insights (formerly Neftex), is a product family within Landmark, a business line of Halliburton. We specialise in the collation, integrations and interpretation of large geoscience dataset and the delivery of these as subsurface models. We are recognised as industry leaders in the provision of web-based sequence stratigraphic products and their global application. Our integrated global geological database - the Neftex Earth Model delivers data, knowledge and insight to help our clients better understand geological risk in their exploration and investment activities.

14:10 Simon Baer - Project Geoscientist - PGS New emerging plays in the Eastern Mediterranean Talk Description. The Eastern Mediterranean is a significant hydrocarbon province where many of the gas discoveries are biogenic in origin. The recent giant “Zohr” discovery highlighted the regional potential in carbonates and anticipated license rounds in 2017 has further increased interest and focus on Lebanon, Cyprus and West Egypt. Indications for the existence of analogues to the “Zohr play” are present throughout the region and many areas remain significantly under-explored despite adjacent blocks being extensively explored and bearing notable amounts of proven hydrocarbon reserves. Simon holds a Master of Science with specialization in applied geophysics from RWTH Aachen, Germany and wrote his Master’s Thesis at the Schlumberger Research Center in Stavanger, Norway. Simon is also an alumnus of the University of Cape Town, South Africa where he gained a Bsc (Hon.) in geology. Simon joined the PGS Reservoir department in 2011. In the previous two years he has worked exclusively with Eastern Mediterranean geology focusing primarily on west Egypt, Lebanon and Cyprus. PGS PGS is a leading, international, marine geophysical company. Our business is technology driven and we provide a range of products and services including MultiClient data, as well as tailored acquisition, and imaging. Our large, modern data library comprises ~850 000 sq. km 3D and ~670 000 km of 2D seismic data that targets areas of high prospectivity, where oil companies have potential to access acreage. Around 44% of the 3D data in our library and 60% of the 2D data have been acquired with multisensor GeoStreamer® technology. That proportion is growing. PGS is the industry's most experienced provider of multisensor broadband data. Worldwide, PGS operates three larger sales and imaging hubs in Europe and North America, and has local offices in 13 countries. The PGS headquarters is in Oslo, Norway and the PGS share is listed on the Oslo stock exchange (OSE: PGS). PGS activities are organized into three business areas. .Sales & Imaging promotes and sells seismic services including tailored acquisition contracts, MultiClient library data, and imaging services .New Ventures designs and markets new MultiClient campaigns and manages strategic projects .Operations & Technology plans, manages and executes all our acquisition projects, and develops new technology solutions

14:45 Raffle Prize: Close

Sponsors of this event

Landmark Exploration Insights
Landmark Exploration Insights (formerly Neftex), is a product family within Landmark, a business line of Halliburton. We specialise in the collation, integrations and interpretation of large geoscience dataset and the delivery of these as subsurface models. We are recognised as industry leaders in the provision of web-based sequence stratigraphic products and their global application. Our integrated global geological database - the Neftex Earth Model delivers data, knowledge and insight to help our clients better understand geological risk in their exploration and investment activities.

Protection Group International
PGI is a privately owned UK business offering integrated, intelligence-led risk management solutions. PGI specialise globally in the secure protection of our clients' assets: human, physical, legal, intellectual property, financial and operational.

Halliburton Landmark
Halliburton Landmark, provides E&P professionals with software-driven lifecycle insights that generate new ideas, actions, and results to maximize asset value. Such insights are derived from digital technology, such as an oil and gas digital twin, which helps take your work to a new level of agility, openness, and collaboration-enabled by innovative and open industry software.

StrategicFit
StrategicFit is a strategy consulting firm specialising in the upstream oil and gas industry.

We help companies, licence partnerships and stakeholders make difficult decisions they can be confident in.

Through decision analysis, a collaborative strategy process and sector expertise, we'll give you
a clearer way forward.

TGS
TGS is the world's largest geoscience data company, known for its asset-light, multi-client business model and global data library. Our primary business is to provide geoscience data to energy companies worldwide. We offer extensive global libraries that include seismic data, magnetic and gravity data, multibeam and coring data, digital well logs and production data. Additionally, the company offers advanced processing and imaging services, interpretation products and data integration solutions.

TGS
TGS is the world's largest geoscience data company, known for its asset-light, multi-client business model and global data library. Our primary business is to provide geoscience data to energy companies worldwide. We offer extensive global libraries that include seismic data, magnetic and gravity data, multibeam and coring data, digital well logs and production data. Additionally, the company offers advanced processing and imaging services, interpretation products and data integration solutions.

PGS
PGS is a leading, international, marine geophysical company. Our business is technology driven and we provide a range of products and services including MultiClient data, as well as tailored acquisition, and imaging.

Our large, modern data library comprises ~850 000 sq. km 3D and ~670 000 km of 2D seismic data that targets areas of high prospectivity, where oil companies have potential to access acreage. Around 44% of the 3D data in our library and 60% of the 2D data have been acquired with multisensor GeoStreamer® technology. That proportion is growing.

PGS is the industry's most experienced provider of multisensor broadband data.

Worldwide, PGS operates three larger sales and imaging hubs in Europe and North America, and has local offices in 13 countries. The PGS headquarters is in Oslo, Norway and the PGS share is listed on the Oslo stock exchange (OSE: PGS).

PGS activities are organized into three business areas.
.Sales & Imaging promotes and sells seismic services including tailored acquisition contracts, MultiClient library data, and imaging services .New Ventures designs and markets new MultiClient campaigns and manages strategic projects .Operations & Technology plans, manages and executes all our acquisition projects, and develops new technology solutions

PGS
PGS is a leading, international, marine geophysical company. Our business is technology driven and we provide a range of products and services including MultiClient data, as well as tailored acquisition, and imaging.

Our large, modern data library comprises ~850 000 sq. km 3D and ~670 000 km of 2D seismic data that targets areas of high prospectivity, where oil companies have potential to access acreage. Around 44% of the 3D data in our library and 60% of the 2D data have been acquired with multisensor GeoStreamer® technology. That proportion is growing.

PGS is the industry's most experienced provider of multisensor broadband data.

Worldwide, PGS operates three larger sales and imaging hubs in Europe and North America, and has local offices in 13 countries. The PGS headquarters is in Oslo, Norway and the PGS share is listed on the Oslo stock exchange (OSE: PGS).

PGS activities are organized into three business areas.
.Sales & Imaging promotes and sells seismic services including tailored acquisition contracts, MultiClient library data, and imaging services .New Ventures designs and markets new MultiClient campaigns and manages strategic projects .Operations & Technology plans, manages and executes all our acquisition projects, and develops new technology solutions

PGS
PGS is a leading, international, marine geophysical company. Our business is technology driven and we provide a range of products and services including MultiClient data, as well as tailored acquisition, and imaging.

Our large, modern data library comprises ~850 000 sq. km 3D and ~670 000 km of 2D seismic data that targets areas of high prospectivity, where oil companies have potential to access acreage. Around 44% of the 3D data in our library and 60% of the 2D data have been acquired with multisensor GeoStreamer® technology. That proportion is growing.

PGS is the industry's most experienced provider of multisensor broadband data.

Worldwide, PGS operates three larger sales and imaging hubs in Europe and North America, and has local offices in 13 countries. The PGS headquarters is in Oslo, Norway and the PGS share is listed on the Oslo stock exchange (OSE: PGS).

PGS activities are organized into three business areas.
.Sales & Imaging promotes and sells seismic services including tailored acquisition contracts, MultiClient library data, and imaging services .New Ventures designs and markets new MultiClient campaigns and manages strategic projects .Operations & Technology plans, manages and executes all our acquisition projects, and develops new technology solutions

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Registered Delegates

P A -	Waclaw Jakubowicz Managing Director Hampton Data Services	Charlie Pembroke Risk Consultant Protection Group International
Geoffrey Boyd Field Development Consultant Antium FRONTFIELD United Kingdom	David Jenkins Director Hurricane Energy plc United Kingdom	Arthur Snell Managing Director, Intelligence Protection Group International
Sergey Drachev Co-founder ArcGeoLink Ltd.	Lawrence Jackson Senior Account Executive IHS United Kingdom	Peter Elliott Consultant PVE Consulting Ltd United Kingdom
Maria Mackey Energy Sector AWS United Kingdom	Sian Evans Research Postgraduate Imperial College London	Krisztina Kovacs Manager, PwC Deals Strategy - O&G PWC United Kingdom
Andrew Gilmore Head of Business Development - Oil & Gas Babcock Energy & Marine Services United Kingdom	John Griffith Upstream Advisor JJG Consulting International Ltd United Kingdom	Robert Stevens Richmond Energy Partners United Kingdom
Sisila Pathirana Geophysicist, Africa New Ventures BP	Christopher Tiratsoo editor Journal of Petroleum Geology United Kingdom	Samira Melloul Manager RJ Energy / PEL
Ahmed El Gazzar Regional Geologist, Africa New Ventures & Regional Exploration BP	Jonathan Brown geophysicist KUFPEC United Kingdom	Martin Smith Business Development Manager - Operations RPS Energy United Kingdom
Bryn Austin Director & Geological/Geophysical Consultant Brynterpretation Ltd United Kingdom	Toni Gaudelli Senior Account Manager LandMark	Norrie Stanley Consultant RPS Energy United Kingdom
OLIVER WHITFIELD Buried Hill United Kingdom	Sigrún Stanton Regional Geoscientist Landmark Exploration Insights United Kingdom	Neil Hodgson EVP Geoscience Searcher Seismic
Andrew Webb Manager, Petroleum Reservoir and Economics CGG United Kingdom	Mark Jones Director - Sales & Business Line Logstor United Kingdom	Somar Abdullatif Senior Geoscientist Serica Energy United Kingdom
James Andrew Busines Development Mgr EAME CGG United Kingdom	David Peel Technical Director Lukoil United Kingdom	Simon Casey Marine Sales Manager Shearwater GeoServices
John Glass Consultant Geologist Cloverfield Consulting Ltd United Kingdom	Chris Morgan Managing Director Lynx Information Systems Ltd United Kingdom	Simon Gozzard Exploration Geoscientist Shell
Fearghal Hayes General Manager Geoscience, Europe Africa CNOOC International United Kingdom	Brian McCleery Director M2C Energy Advisers United Kingdom	Andrew Pollock ?Geologist - Global New Ventures Shell
David Craig Count Geophysics	David Pilling Head of Oil & Gas Nedbank Capital United Kingdom	Pete Nolan Exploration consultant SHP United Kingdom
Chad Barnes Upstream Analyst Energy Industries Council United Kingdom	Thomas Jewell Neftex Champion - Middle East & North Africa Neftex (Halliburton) United Kingdom	Neil Carmichael CEO Siren United Kingdom
Tom Pepper Energy Intelligence United Kingdom	Mike King Oil & Gas Manager NPA Satellite Mapping United Kingdom	Kieran Aust Business Dev. Mgr. - Midstream Products SNC Lavalin Oil & Gas Midstream United Kingdom
Tom Richards Regional Manager, North Africa Enverus United Kingdom	Graham Pazdzierski Director Oolithica	Jevon Hilder Vice President, Mediterranean and Middle East Spectrum Geo Ltd
Mark Lonergan Business Development EPI Group United Kingdom	alessandro lanfranchi Oolithica Geoscience Ltd	Nigel Flood Multiclient Sales Manager Spectrum Geo Ltd United Kingdom
Mark Stanley Director Business Development EPI Ltd	Alex Birch-Hawkins Geophysicist Perenco United Kingdom	Andrew Lodge Principal Strategic Fit, Egdon Resources
Jorgen Keyser Equinor United Kingdom	Mark Foster Manager Business Development PetroLead Technologies LLC United Kingdom	Vibhusha Raj Sharma StrategicFit United Kingdom
Pete Rumelhart Project Manager Africa New Opportunities ExxonMobil	Jamie Main Director PGI United Kingdom	Joseph Pape Exploration Advisor Stratochem Services United Kingdom
Ivan Fabuel-Perez Senior Exploration Geologist Africa New Opportunities ExxonMobil	Ryan Turner POLITICAL RISK ANALYST PGI United Kingdom	Jon Ford Consultant Tedstone Oil & Gas United Kingdom
Roger Bignell Geological Consultant Fairway Exploration United Kingdom	CHARLES BROWN Business development director PGI Ltd	Ben Sayers Business Development Manager, AME TGS United Kingdom
Avinga Pallangyo Events Coordinator Finding Petroleum	Simon Baer PGS	James Dodson Account Manager TGS United Kingdom
Alexandra McKenzie artist Finding Petroleum	Matthew Pyett Sales & Services Manager, AMME PGS United Kingdom	Matt Tyrrell Associate TROIS United Kingdom
Richard McIntyre Sales Manager Finding Petroleum	Øystein Lie Project Manager MC Middle East and CIS PGS	Robert Hayes Subsea Support Manager Wood United Kingdom
Karl Jeffery Editor Finding Petroleum United Kingdom	Iain Brown PGS United Kingdom	Helen Ricketts Business Development Manager Wood Group Kenny United Kingdom
Greg Coleman CEO Future Energy Partners United Kingdom	Thomas Hansen ?Geoscientist PGS United Kingdom	Todd Jensen Middle East and North Africa Data Analyst Wood Mackenzie United Kingdom
Alexandra Jackson analyst Gas Strategies	Frederic Yeterian Director Philax International (UK) Ltd United Kingdom	Hugh Ebbutt Associated Director WSS Energy Consulting United Kingdom
Chris Boot Business Development Getech	David Contreras Gegional Geoscience Manager Polarcus United Kingdom