Asia’s emerging frontiers and upstream potential

SINGAPORE - March 6, 2014 - PRLog -- Global Pacific & Partners announce the Program for the 20^th Asia Oil Week, Goodwood Park Hotel, Singapore, which includes the 23rd Asia Petroleum Strategy Briefing and the 20^th Asia Upstream Conference.

Dr Duncan Clarke, Chairman & CEO, Global Pacific & Partners, says: “Asia’s oil and gas game is moving into new territories, with established producer countries and corporate players eyeing new strategies, and re-discovered frontiers across vast region, from Pakistan to New Zealand”.

“New frontiers and oil/gas potential beckon in Asia’s hydrocarbons game, while Independents have opened new plays and state oil companies have global strategies, while licensing agencies and Ministries seek exploration dollars ”

The 20^th Asia Oil Week, begins with the 23rd Asia Petroleum Strategy Briefing, the longest running Strategy Briefing held in and on Asia within the global upstream industry. It provides an in-depth examination of the competitive upstream oil and gas-LNG strategies in Asian exploration and development with diagnosis of portfolios held by corporate oil, Governments and National Oil Companies, whilst tracking competitors and state players across Southeast Asia and ASEAN, Australasia, China, the sub-Continent (India, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh), East Asia (Japan, South Korea, Taiwan) and in old/new frontiers (Timor Leste, Sri Lanka and elsewhere).

The Strategy Briefing is presented by Dr Duncan Clarke, Chairman & CEO, Global Pacific & Partners, a leading global strategist, speaker and author on the fast-changing world oil and gas industry.

The Asia Upstream 2014conference is a landmark event for Asia’s exploration industry. Featuring 30 senior-level Presentations with Speakers drawn from across Asia and worldwide and bringing together senior executives from Super-Majors, Independents, Government and National Oil Company to interface, network and negotiate deals, whilst showcasing leading corporate players.

This high-level industry gathering will discuss Asia’s emerging frontiers and upstream potential over an intensive three-day programme based on the following key issues:

Corporates, Governments, National Oil Companies
Diverse upstream ventures – onshore/offshore
Government policies & acreage opportunities
Commercialisation, risks and investments
Oil, gas-LNG energy financeband transactions
Changing corporate upstream strategies
New frontiers in shale gas/oil and CBM-CSM
Australasian companies in Asia’s upstream
Asian oil risks, threats and hydrocarbon future
Licensing rounds, acreage and asset markets
Regional and worldwide Independents in Asia
Gas-LNG industry future and Asian gas markets