Momentum is building towards the East Africa Oil and Gas Summit as market drivers TULLOW, NOC KENYA, PETROBRAS, HALLIBURTON, EXXON, ANADARKO, WEATHERFORD, FUGRO, TOTAL SA, AFREN, CHASE, BERTLING, ECO BANK, CCC, IMARA ENERGY, SIMBA, NILEPET, OPHIR and YOKAGAWA all signed up as delegates this week to attend the Ministers’ Official East Africa Oil and Gas Summit (EAOGS) joining more than 100 companies who have already booked for the official annual event for the Oil & Gas industry in East Africa taking place in Nairobi 13-14 November at the Intercon Nairobi.
As the Ministers’ initiative for the East Africa region EAOGS led by Hon Prof SospeterMuhongo, Minister of Energy & Minerals, Tanzania; Hon. Stephen DhieuDau, Minister for Petroleum, Energy and Mining, South Sudan; Hon. Irene Muloni, Minister of Energy & Minerals, Uganda; Hon. Abdul RazakNoormahomed, Vice-Minister, Ministry for Mineral Resources Mozambique and Hon. KiraituMurungi, Minister for Energy, Kenya, EAOGS is the most senior annual event in the East Africa oil and gas calendar for 2012. With a planned opening by Prime Minister RailaOdinga, and President MwaiKibaki and attendance by all the major Energy Ministers and senior oil and gas industry representatives from across East Africa, EAOGS is the major annual international hub for the oil and gas industry across East Africa.
The Ministers from Tanzania, South Sudan, Uganda, Mozambique and Kenya will be speaking in the Ministerial Address on the key opportunities and challenges in the East African oil and gas industry and will all be leading delegations from their respective countries to the summit.
Sponsors for the summit include NOC Kenya, Simba Energy, Bertling Logistics, Newport Africa and Hybrid Solutions, and more speaker, sponsor and the final programme announcements will be made this week as the momentum builds in the final 3 week count down to the summit.
”The EAOG Summit is the first in what will become a pivotal annual event of great investor and stakeholder interest. We invite both the regional and international oil and gas communities to join us in Nairobi, 12th to 14th November. I ask you to join me in wholeheartedly supporting this event” said Hon. KiraituMurungi. He explained how the country is keen to learn from the best practices around the world to guide the exploitation of oil in an effort to protect the country from the risks associated with oil. “We are looking at countries like Abu Dhabi, Norway and Ghana which have managed their oil resources fairly well as examples. However, we want to make Kenya a case study of the best management of oil in the world,” he said. Case studies on using oil revenues for a diverse economy are covered on the summit programme in session 4 on the impact of increasing oil and gas revenues for the region.
The EAOGS programme includes sessions led by government and industry experts examining the challenges and opportunities in East Africa from a government and private company perspective; finance, infrastructure projects, pipelines, LNG terminals, legislation, security, local content, technology transfer and future projects.
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