Recent large and world-class gas discoveries in Mozambique and Tanzania

NAIROBI, Kenya - March 5, 2014 - PRLog -- NAIROBI – Recent large and world-class gas discoveries in Mozambique and Tanzania, with potential for more to come, and commercial oil flows in Kenya, show the potential of the enormous exploration frontiers of Eastern Africa, both onshore and offshore. The impact of this resurgence is rebalancing the Africa oil-gas industry landscape into a wider continental oil and gas/LNG game, with potentially global consequences.

The 5th Eastern Africa Oil, Gas/LNG & Energy Conference 2014 provides unrivalled new insight into the upstream opportunities, open acreage, bid rounds, new ventures, oil/gas investments, key upstream players, and corporate/government strategies in this vast region of fifteen countries covering onshore and offshore potential, from Eritrea to South Africa, including across the Mascerene islands.

Over 350 senior executives attended the Conference in 2013, with 36 exhibitors, and over 90 delegates participated in the Strategy Briefing – with corporate/state players coming from over 40 countries on Six Continents including from inter alia: Kenya, Uganda, Moçambique, United Kingdom, Australia, Ethiopia, South Africa, United States of America, Canada, Nigeria, United Arab Emirates, Madagascar, France, Germany, Tanzania, India, Spain, China, Netherlands, Egypt, Hong Kong, Russia, Ireland, Norway, Switzerland, Bahrain, Kuwait, l’Union des Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Poland, Sudan, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia

The Conference, the landmark meeting on Eastern Africa, is hosted annually by Global Pacific & Partners, in Nairobi, Kenya, including with the widely-acclaimed pre-Conference 5th Eastern Africa Strategy Briefing.  During the Strategy Briefing Dr Duncan Clarke, advisor to numerous companies and governments, and author of several historiography and economics books on Africa and its oil and gas future, provides key insights on the corporate upstream oil and gas game, governments and state oil firms and licensing agency strategies.

Following the 5th Eastern Africa Oil, Gas/LNG & Energy 2014 we will celebrate the 62nd PetroAfricanus Dinner to be held on 29th April.

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The Conference showcases significant presentations of chief executives, government officials, Ministers and key players in Eastern African exploration, from within leading corporate and state oil companies as well as inside the energy finance and service/supply industry value-chain, with an important Exhibition over the Conference period.

Confirmed Presentations Include:

Global Pacific & Partners
Ministry of Energy, Kenya
Tullow Oil
Afren plc
Africa Oil Corp
Ophir Energy
Discover Exploration Limited
Petrosa, South Africa
South Atlantic Petroleum Ltd
Oyster Oil & Gas
South African Oil & Gas Alliance
Soma Oil & Gas
Taipan Resources
Petroleum Agency of SA
Rwanda Natural Resources Authority, Ministry of Natural Resources, Rwanda
Department of Geology, Burundi
Ministere des Hydrocarbures, Kinshasa
SPTEC Advisory
Vanoil Energy
Shell Exploration
CGG
Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbures, EP, Maputo
Geological Survey Department, Malawi
Ministry of Energy & Minerals, Republic of Somaliland
Anadarko Petroleum

Already Eastern Africa has been transformed into a fast-emerging oil and gas frontier region. The onshore and offshore potential includes exclusive economic zones, deepwater opportunities and ultra-deep plays. The 15 nation states in the region are diverse in scale, resource potential, contract terms, and venture-types and in regard to exploration cycles and hydrocarbon discoveries.

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Babette van Gessel          Sonika Greyvenstein

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