18^th Latin Oil Week, 2012

18^th Latin Upstream 2012

8^th Latin Petroleum: Strategy Briefing

Latin America’s oil, gas and energy landscapes and strategies

Global Pacific & Partners announce the program for the 18^th Latin Oil Week, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 16-18 April 2012.

Dr Duncan Clarke, Chairman & CEO, Global Pacific & Partners, says: “Our focus is on Latin America’s oil, gas and energy landscapes & strategies, evaluating in-depth a range of near to long-term exploration, development, investment and strategy perspectives now in play, their potential upstream impacts and how private and state oil/gas companies and Governments will reshape Latin America in the world upstream game”.

“Existing hydrocarbon resources in Latin America are huge, under-invested, and with more potential, including in unconventional shale oil/gas, with world significance”

This year’s Conference, the longest running upstream event in Latin America, with industry Exhibition, will feature also a special country-focus on Colombia’s E&P landscape and the new opportunities therein.

Dr Clarke explains: “Colombia is one key to re-shaping of the Continent’s oil and gas future, along with Brazil. As Colombia has attracted many majors and independents, it has outperformed others. There is more to come”

The 18^th Latin Oil Week 2012 is a key event for Latin America’s exploration industry, and its gas-LNG and GTL players - with Senior Executive speakers drawn from Latin America and worldwide. It brings together Super-Majors, Independents, Government and National Oil Companies, as well as those inside the value-chain, to interface, network and negotiate deals, whilst showcasing leading investors, companies and acreage rounds and assets for farm-ins from private and state players worldwide.

Previously this conference, has attracted over 200 attendees, with 110 different companies represented, and delegates drawn from within Brazil, but also regionally, and from the US, Canada, Asia, Europe and the Middle East.

The Conference features 35 senior-level Speakers from companies and Governments drawn from across the industry, with featuredkeynote addresses including:

• Pedro Augusto Bastos, International E&P Business Development General Manager, Petrobras, Brasil
• Carlos Villegas Quiroga, Executive President & CEO, YPFB, Bolivia
• Luis Ramos Martinez, Chief of Hydrocarbon Reserves, Pemex E&P, Mexico
• Orlando Cabrales Segovia, President, ANH Colombia
• Aurelio Ochoa, Chairman of the Board of Directors, PeruPetro

This high-level gathering will discuss Latin America’s oil, gas-LNG and energy landscapes over an intensive three-day Program (including the well-known 8^th Latin Petroleum Strategy Briefing) based on the following issues and agenda:

• Latin America: upstream exploration game
• Latin Gas-LNG and GTL ventures
• Government strategies, acreage and assets
• Licensing agencies and policies
• Reserves and production outlook
• Mature exploration zones
• Heavy Oil and EOR potential
• Deepwater zones and new frontiers
• Caribbean and Central America potential
• Southern cone gas game and pipelines
• Frontier states, new plays and opportunities
• Latin giants: Venezuela, Brasil, Mexico
• Minnows, Independents & Super-Majors in the region
• Foreign state players and investments

The 18^th Latin Oil Week begins with the 8^th Latin Petroleum Strategy Briefing on Monday 16 April 2012, with unique insights into the Continent’s corporate game, the shifting competitive oil map, the corporate players (private and state) and the issues and opportunities facing investors and companies across Latin America. Presentations by Dr Duncan Clarke, Chairman & CEO, Global Pacific & Partners, a leading global strategist, speaker and writer/author on the world oil and gas upstream industry, and Advisor to governments and oil companies worldwide.

For further details, registration and booking, please visit: www.petro21.com or contact: babette@glopac.com or sonika@glopac-partners.com

Global Pacific & Partners has over 35 years’ experience in advisory practice and 21 years-plus in high-level Conference management, with special focus on the world oil and gas industries. The company has hosted key oil and gas events, including Strategy Briefings, on Six Continents and manages an annual event suite in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe and elsewhere, whilst conducting Roadshows on acreage and assets for Governments and National Oil Companies.

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