Five Things We Learned About South America
It shouldn’t be a surprise anymore, but energy development is only truly meaningful for local economy and communities when small -and mid-caps are present and striving.
Alessandro Bacci
Iran has the world’s fourth largest proven crude oil reserves at 158 billion barrels (after Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, and Canada) and the world’s first proven natural gas reserves at 1,183 trillion cubic feet.
Matthew Brown, Partner, Latham & Watkins
The number of new gas to power (G2P) project announcements has swelled in recent months across diverse markets, including Asia, Africa and Europe — but potential challenges need to be considered.
Franck Pliya, Country Director, Senegal, TechnipFMC
Since a couple of years, our clients are having to transform as the market is adapting. The focus is on lower field development and operations costs, quicker project life cycle, shorter schedule, reduced risk profile, all of which will improve their projects economics.
Andrew Smith, Executive Vice President, Shell Trading and Supply
Independent producers are a key category of customers for us. We can help them detect early on when a market is about to get weaker and become a buyer’s market.
NuEnergy Gas Interview by: Ross Stewart Campbell, CEO, Guanxi Energy
NuEnergy Gas is an Australian-listed, clean energy company focused on the development of Indonesian gas assets.
Emma Delaney, Regional President, Mauritania and Senegal, BP
As a graduate interested in energy economics the oil & gas industry was very exciting – the obvious place for me to look to start my career.
Tor Langoy, Managing Director, BD Global Capital
While BD Globe Capital has been providing investment and smart capital solutions to the energy sector worldwide for years now, we have a particular focus at present on ‘upstream Nigeria’, no doubt having been of great interest to us for the last 7 years.
H.E. Fafa J Sanyang, Honorable Minister for Petroleum and Energy Ministry of Petroleum, The Gambia
In a way, I can say that I have been involved in the industry throughout my career. In the 80s, the geological unit was involved in oil and gas amongst other things.
Mambury Njie, Managing Director, GNPC
In my position as Permanent Secretary of Energy and Economic Affairs in early 2000, I was also the head of the Policy Analysis Unit, Department of Geology and Commission of Petroleum. They were all reporting to me.
Chris McLean, CEO of Stonechair Capital
In the early 2000’s I did my first transaction in Nigeria and I realised that there was a lot going on in Africa. In the mid -2000’s for two to three years, I travelled between Dubai and Calgary every six weeks as Dubai was very much a gateway of finance to the African continent.
Gilberto Botas, Chairman, ANEP
It is the first time that we have confirmed such large gas deposits and we have to be prepared to fulfil the needs of the experts in the areas of oil and gas, or mining, for example.