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Petroleum Industry Fundamentals 2009
Keynote Speakers
Key Focus
  • where the upstream fits into global petroleum - its critical role and impact
  • key concepts and application of petroleum economics inside the industry
  • exploration: acreage, blocks, fields, projects, evaluation issues, licensing
  • State policies, competitors, partners, contracts, negotiations
  • basins, prospectivity, bonuses, new ventures, farm-ins/outs, relinquishments, obligations, seismic, drilling, reserves, wells (wildcats, appraisal)
  • development-production: commitments, programs,life cycles, phases, opex, and capex, operating costs, breakeven, field sizes, building,assets, core focus, teams, enhanced recovery,commercial and political risks
  • institutions-players: Super-Majors, leading Independents
  • National Oil Companies in Africa,new oil and gas competitors
  • oil ventures and energy finance, IPOs, takeovers, privatisations
  • oil & gas trends: future upstream challenges,
  • new exploration frontiers in Africa, gas-LNG
  • corporate strategies, leading management issues
  • the vexed issues of the so-called African“Oil Curse”
  • future drivers shaping African hydrocarbons and energy, with unique perspectives on the new paradigms shaping world oil, gas and energy
Overview


This special Program is uniquely designed for new and existing players seeking fuller understanding of the world and Africa upstream oil and
gas game
. The Workshop provides essential training and insights on the basic global oil industry framework across the value-chain and the
character of the petroleum business from exploration to discoveries and development to production, including critical above-ground issues for
management.


Our 2nd Petroleum Industry Fundamentals Workshop will be presented by Dr Duncan Clarke (Chairman & CEO, Global Pacific & Partners), a leading global strategist, writer, speaker and thinker on the world upstream and Africa’s oil/gas and corporate strategies, including National Oil Companies in Africa, Asia, Latin America, MidEast and Europe. He is author of the widely-acclaimed Crude Continent: The Struggle for Africa’s Oil Prize (Profile Books, 2008), and The Battle For Barrels (Profile, 2007) and Empires Of Oil (Profile, 2007), copies of which will be provided to Delegates.


This timely Workshop for management and players seeking a future in the industry provides clear insight into the fabric of the global oil/gas, game, the evolving industry structure, key nomenclature in use, the basic economics and models driving the oil industry, issues impacting Africa’s past, present and future, including claims of a “Continental Oil Curse”, thorny questions of world oil resource endowment and reserves (including peak oil debates), and critical images on the emerging world oil future relevant for large and small companies, state-owned entities and Governments shaping the current and future oil and energy game.


Delegates access Presentations (750 Images) online, plus benefit from oil/energy industry networking in an interactive and intensive forum.

The Workshop is held prior to our separately bookable 2nd PetroAfricanus Dinner on The Highveld, with Guest Speaker:  Thulani S. Gcabashe, Executive Chairman, BuiltAfrica Holdings, taking place on the evening of 8th September 2009.

This Management Training Workshop is designed for decision-makers involved in oil and gas, including those seeking deeper understanding of this complex industry:

  • Oil & Gas Companies
  • Exploration & New Ventures
  • Midstream & Downstream
  • Government Officials In Energy
  • Ministries & National Regulatory Authorities
  • Petrochemical Companies
  • Refiners and Suppliers
  • Traders & Oil Products
  • Shippers/Brokers
  • Environmental Agencies
  • Banking and Financial Institutions
  • Energy Law Firms
  • Engineering & Contracting Companies
  • Consultancies
  • Associations
  • Unions
  • Media

For The Benefit Of:

  • Chief Executives & Managing Directors
  • Managers & Team Leaders In Oil & Gas
  • Government Representatives
  • Policy Planners
  • Embassies & Trade Delegations
  • Contract Managers
  • Auditors & Risk Assessors
  • Investment Bankers
  • Private and Public Investors
  • Project Finance & Advisors
  • In-House Legal Counsel
  • Energy Lawyers
  • Marketing Executives



About Global Pacific & Partners
Global Pacific & Partners is a leading firm inside the world upstream industry, established for over three decades with unique track record.

We operate a global suite of top-quality annual management events on Africa, Asia, Latin America, MidEast, Europe, and National Oil Companies, and provide high-level strategy research with seasoned advisory practice, allied to worldwide in-depth strategy briefings, international executive club networks, with online services, including daily oil and gas news for oil and gas executives on Six Continents.

International Conferences
Our long-established international portfolio and reputation is built on an unmatched 20-year track record across the world for top quality management events focused on the global upstream industry.

We have hosted over 5,000 leading speakers including 1,500+ from Governments and state oil companies. More than 25,000 delegates have participated in our world-class events, with over 500 entities as exhibitors.

Companies benefit from our e-conference online delivery systems, top-of-range and quality-managed events, and an enlarging blue-chip clientele.

Our relationships are based on close connections built with leading world national oil companies and senior executives from super-majors and worldwide independents in Africa, Asia, Latin America, MidEast, Europe and North America. We have executed Roadshows for Governments and National Oil Companies for over a decade, these conducted in world oil capitals, to market acreage, assets and investment potential.

The Global Pacific & Partners brand is widely-recognised and valued worldwide by corporate sponsors, exhibitors, delegates and institutions for quality and seamless delivery as well as superior networking opportunities, plus social functions. Our Annual Awards Programs at Conferences, recognising over 100 companies and individuals for excellence in the world industry, have functioned for over 10 years.

Strategy Briefings
Our worldwide annual suite of strategy briefings with a 20-year track record provides global-regional in-depth coverage of six continents, with over 2,500 participants to date in 100+ briefings, while around 300 delegates now attend these events annually.

You may also access online our World Strategy Online internet service. Fundamental research built on a global knowledge-base underpins these Presentations made by Dr Duncan Clarke, an authority on the world upstream industry with 30 years experience inside the oil game.

Numerous companies and state bodies have been clients of our in-house strategy briefings conducted worldwide for two decades.

Contacts
Registration Enquiries
Sonika Greyvenstein sonika@glopac-partners.com +27.11.880.7052
Amanda Wellbeloved amanda@glopac-partners.com +27.11.880.7052
Sponsorship Enquiries
Sonika Greyvenstein sonika@glopac-partners.com +27.11.880.7052
Amanda Wellbeloved amanda@glopac-partners.com +27.11.880.7052
Gayle Meikle gayle@glopac-partners.com +44 122.345.1311
General Contacts
Sonika Greyvenstein sonika@glopac-partners.com +27.11.880.7052
Amanda Wellbeloved amanda@glopac-partners.com +27.11.880.7052
PetroAfricanus Club
Amanda Wellbeloved amanda@glopac-partners.com +27.11.880.7052
Babette van Gessel babette@glopac-partners.com +31.70.324.6154
Petroleum Industry Fundamentals
Sponsors

Ensure you company's position and profile in Africa, and become a Sponsor at the 2nd Petroleum Industry Fundamentals Management Training Workshop. For a list of remaining Options please contact:

Amanda Wellbeloved: amanda@glopac.com or tel: + 27 11 880 7052


Contacts
Sponsorship Enquiries
Sonika Greyvenstein sonika@glopac-partners.com +27.11.880.7052
Amanda Wellbeloved amanda@glopac-partners.com +27.11.880.7052
Gayle Meikle gayle@glopac-partners.com +44 122.345.1311
Previous year Sponsors
Petroleum Industry Fundamentals
Exhibitors

Display Tables are available at the Workshop.  For details please contact sonika@glopac.com or amanda@glopac.com

2nd Petroleum Industry Fundamentals 2009
Event Date:
8th of September 2009
Event Fee:
ZAR 4950.00
Venue
 
MAGNOLIA ROOM
Sandton Sun Hotel
Corner of Fifth & Alice Streets, Sandton, 2196
Johannesburg, South Africa
tel: 27117805000
fax:
link: hotel link
Overview


This special Program is uniquely designed for new and existing players seeking fuller understanding of the world and Africa upstream oil and
gas game
. The Workshop provides essential training and insights on the basic global oil industry framework across the value-chain and the
character of the petroleum business from exploration to discoveries and development to production, including critical above-ground issues for
management.


Our 2nd Petroleum Industry Fundamentals Workshop will be presented by Dr Duncan Clarke (Chairman & CEO, Global Pacific & Partners), a leading global strategist, writer, speaker and thinker on the world upstream and Africa’s oil/gas and corporate strategies, including National Oil Companies in Africa, Asia, Latin America, MidEast and Europe. He is author of the widely-acclaimed Crude Continent: The Struggle for Africa’s Oil Prize (Profile Books, 2008), and The Battle For Barrels (Profile, 2007) and Empires Of Oil (Profile, 2007), copies of which will be provided to Delegates.


This timely Workshop for management and players seeking a future in the industry provides clear insight into the fabric of the global oil/gas, game, the evolving industry structure, key nomenclature in use, the basic economics and models driving the oil industry, issues impacting Africa’s past, present and future, including claims of a “Continental Oil Curse”, thorny questions of world oil resource endowment and reserves (including peak oil debates), and critical images on the emerging world oil future relevant for large and small companies, state-owned entities and Governments shaping the current and future oil and energy game.


Delegates access Presentations (750 Images) online, plus benefit from oil/energy industry networking in an interactive and intensive forum.

The Workshop is held prior to our separately bookable 2nd PetroAfricanus Dinner on The Highveld, with Guest Speaker :Thulani S. Gcabashe, Executive Chairman, BuiltAfrica Holdings, taking place on the evening of 8th September 2009.

This Management Training Workshop is designed for decision-makers involved in oil and gas, including those seeking deeper understanding of this complex industry:

  • Oil & Gas Companies
  • Exploration & New Ventures
  • Midstream & Downstream
  • Government Officials In Energy
  • Ministries & National Regulatory Authorities
  • Petrochemical Companies
  • Refiners and Suppliers
  • Traders & Oil Products
  • Shippers/Brokers
  • Environmental Agencies
  • Banking and Financial Institutions
  • Energy Law Firms
  • Engineering & Contracting Companies
  • Consultancies
  • Associations
  • Unions
  • Media

For The Benefit Of:

  • Chief Executives & Managing Directors
  • Managers & Team Leaders In Oil & Gas
  • Government Representatives
  • Policy Planners
  • Embassies & Trade Delegations
  • Contract Managers
  • Auditors & Risk Assessors
  • Investment Bankers
  • Private and Public Investors
  • Project Finance & Advisors
  • In-House Legal Counsel
  • Energy Lawyers
  • Marketing Executives



2nd Petroleum Industry Fundamentals 2009
Event Date:
8th of September 2009
Event Fee:
ZAR 4950.00
Venue
 
MAGNOLIA ROOM
Sandton Sun Hotel
Corner of Fifth & Alice Streets, Sandton, 2196
Johannesburg, South Africa
tel: 27117805000
fax:
link: hotel link
Confirmed Speakers
2nd Petroleum Industry Fundamentals 2009
Event Date:
8th of September 2009
Event Fee:
ZAR 4950.00
Venue
 
MAGNOLIA ROOM
Sandton Sun Hotel
Corner of Fifth & Alice Streets, Sandton, 2196
Johannesburg, South Africa
tel: 27117805000
fax:
link: hotel link
Program
08:00
Registration and Coffee
Day 1: Tuesday, 08 September 2009
Session 1: World Oil Industry Architecture
08:45
  • World Oil Industry Shape: Nomenclature
  • Upstream, Midstream, Downstream
  • Exploration Maps & Upstream Landscapes
  • Appraisal, Development Ventures Production 
  • Global Oil/Gas Markets: Measures & Movers
  • African Oil/Energy Institutional Shape
  • Corporate Oil Players: Shifting “Food Chain”
  • Emerging Models In World Oil Industry
10:30
Coffee Break
Session 2: Petroleum Economics Fundamentals
11:00
  • Economic Models: Core Concepts
  • Issues: Theory, Application, Practice
  • Oil Finance: Funding Upstream Ventures 
  • Economics Inside Petroleum Companies 
  • Investments: Risks/Reserves, Capex/Opex 
  • Shaping Costs, Returns, Cycle Time/s 
  • Drivers: Crude Oil Prices & Markets 
  • Asset Values, Market Cap, Growth 
  • Shareholder Performance & Equities 
  • Managing/De-Risking Ventures/Plays 
  • Corporate Benchmarking & Country Risks 
  • Commercial Questions & Strategy
13:00
Luncheon
Session 3: Africa: “Oil Curse” & Hydrocarbon Future
14:00
  • Theories Of “Oil Curse” 
  • Dutch Disease & Derivatives
  • Claims & Claimants: African Models
  • Evidence Across Oil/Gas Value Chains
  • Corporate Portfolio Investment Impacts
  • Understanding Industry Dynamics 
  • Africa’s Resource Base/Reserves
  • Corporate Quest For The Oil Prize
  • Government & National Oil Companies
  • Medieval Continent & Modernity
  • Oil-Poverty: Social Dilemmas
  • Stability, Struggle, Con? icts
  • Century Long Oil Saga: Cycles
  • Africa’s Oil: 21st Century To 2050
16:00
Coffee Break
Session 4: World Oil Future To 2050
16:15
  • World Oil Resources/Reserves
  • Peak Oil Theory: Depletion Models
  • Claims & Claimants: Flaws & Failures
  • Emerging World Oil Industry Dynamics
  • Paradigms In World 21st Century Oil
  • Resource Nationalism: Impacts
  • State Oil Companies Portfolio
  • Competitors: Long Corporate Tail
  • Strategies For Survival/Success
  • Grand Strategy: Tomorrow’s World
18:00
Cocktail Reception
Petroleum Industry Fundamentals 2009
Event Date:
8th of September 2009
Event Fee:
ZAR 4950.00
Event Venue:
Sandton Sun Hotel
Key Events at: Petroleum Industry Fundamentals 2009
2nd Petroleum Industry Fundamentals Details
2nd PetroAfricanus Highveld Dinner Details
Exhibitors

Display Tables are available at the Workshop.  For details please contact sonika@glopac.com or amanda@glopac.com

Petroleum Industry Fundamentals 2009
Event Date:
8th of September 2009
Event Fee:
ZAR 4950.00
Event Venue:
Sandton Sun Hotel
Sponsors

Ensure you company's position and profile in Africa, and become a Sponsor at the 2nd Petroleum Industry Fundamentals Management Training Workshop. For a list of remaining Options please contact:

Amanda Wellbeloved: amanda@glopac.com or tel: + 27 11 880 7052


2nd PetroAfricanus Highveld Dinner 2009
Event Date:
8th of September 2009
Event Fee:
ZAR 495.00
Venue
 
Restuarant
Vilamoura Restaurant
Sandton Sun Hotel Crn 5th & Alice Streets Sandton
Johannesburg, South Africa
tel:
fax:
link: hotel link
Overview

Our Guest Speaker at the 2nd PetroAfricanus Dinner on the Highveld, to be held in Johannesburg, will be Thulani S. Gcabashe, Executive Chairman, BuiltAfrica Holdings

PetroAfricanus has established a worldwide reputation as a key private network for management, African deal-making in oil and gas, and new business relationships for the Continent - supported in Year-2008 by our Corporate Patron Preng & Associates, Corporate Sponsors Ophir Energy, Hess, Tullow Oil and Afren, with Corporate Members Adepetun, Caxton-Martins, Agbor & Segun, plus numerous individuals drawn from around the world and in Africa.

PetroAfricanus Dinners take place in a private and unique setting. Machiavelli's Rules. No Press. 

Payment is required before Club Dinners. 


2nd PetroAfricanus Highveld Dinner 2009
Event Date:
8th of September 2009
Event Fee:
ZAR 495.00
Venue
 
Restuarant
Vilamoura Restaurant
Sandton Sun Hotel Crn 5th & Alice Streets Sandton
Johannesburg, South Africa
tel:
fax:
link: hotel link
Confirmed Speakers
Thulani S. Gcabashe
Executive Chairman, BuiltAfrica Holdings
Dr Duncan Clarke
Chairman & CEO, Global Pacific & Partners
2nd PetroAfricanus Highveld Dinner 2009
Event Date:
8th of September 2009
Event Fee:
ZAR 495.00
Venue
 
Restuarant
Vilamoura Restaurant
Sandton Sun Hotel Crn 5th & Alice Streets Sandton
Johannesburg, South Africa
tel:
fax:
link: hotel link
Program
Day 1: Tuesday, 08 September 2009
Petroleum Industry Fundamentals 2009 Booking Conditions
Cancellation Policy & Replacements
Your registration holds contractual obligation for payment/s due. However, any cancellation (in writing only) made at least 14 days prior to start of event will be refunded with a 20% administration charge. Thereafter, refunds will not apply but delegates will receive online access to relevant Conference Presentations. Replacements are welcome. All Delegates registered for any event/s will be liable for full payment due under this contract unless cancellation has been made and duly acknowledged.
Indemnity
Where matters beyond the reasonable control of Global Pacific & Partners (The Company) impair or prevent The Company from being able to perform its obligations or deliver a service at or in relation to this Event such as power shortages, natural disasters, WHO warnings, war, terrorism, strikes or Acts of God, The Client shall release The Company from any liability or loss incidental or consequential to this event including costs arising from cancellation, postponement or delay.
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Details
Event Date:
8th of September 2009
Location:
Johannesburg, South Africa
Venue:
Sandton Sun Hotel
Key Events
* All events are separately bookable
* Discount for combined events
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