London, Tuesday 26th May: prior the 12th Africa Independents Forum, 2015

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, May 5, 2015 /EINPresswire.com/ -- This unique and widely-acclaimed 8th African National Oil Companies: Strategy Briefing, held on the Tuesday 26th May 2015 prior to their 12th Africa Independents Forum in London (27th May), provides unrivalled insights into the Continent’s fast-changing state oil companies and government upstream oil and gas game, and is built on 40 years of oil-gas and economics knowledge inside Africa, based on extensive research and relationships held across Africa and the world.

Presentations are made by Dr Duncan Clarke (Chairman of the Board, Global Pacific & Partners), the leading strategist, speaker, thinker, writer and author on Africa’s fast-growing, complex upstream game.

Unique to Global Pacific & Partners, this high-quality Strategy Briefing tracks changing state oil firms’ strategies across Africa’s exploration landscapes for oil and gas-LNG companies and foreign state oil firms, within the shifting paradigms shaped by governments and national oil companies. It provides deep-level and seasoned insights with critical interpretations on the strategies of around 75 state oil players and institutions, in a one-of-a-kind review which reveals Africa's emerging and fast-evolving petro-cartography found above-ground, and shown as never seen before.

Duncan Clarke is author of the path-breaking, one-and-only continent-wide, 100 year historiography of the upstream and the exploration game, elaborated in Africa Crude Continent: The Struggle for Africa’s Oil Prize (Profile Books, 2010: with the TV-Film Documentary made by CNBC-Africa, shown in the Auditorium during the Conference), plus the widely-acclaimed Africa's Future: Darkness To Destiny (Profile Books 2012). Earlier published works include The Battle For Barrels (Profile, 2007) and Empires Of Oil (Profile 2007) , and with co-author Babette van Gessel, Three Decades in the Long Grass: The Story of Global Pacific & Partners (Jacana Media, Johannesburg, 2014).

This intensive, one-day, not-to-miss, Tour de l’Afrique, revealing Africa’s dynamic but changing competitive oil maps and political economy, with fast-shifting geopolitics and state oil/gas landscapes, highlights themes and insights not typically identified by any conventional analysts or media.

The Strategy Briefing covers inter alia the following issues with significant current and long-term relevance to oil/gas companies, and the Africa oil and gas value chain of players in the service and supply industry, with core focus on Governments, National Oil Companies, state oil and gas investors, licensing agencies, and Ministries, plus policies and practices impacting Africa’s oil/gas industry and business world, notably:

Top-to Bottom diagnosis of the strategies, portfolios and shifting competitive interests of over 75 state oil/gas companies in Africa
No-holds barred forensic analysis of the policies, politics and initiatives of Africa’s Governments and state oil players active on the Continent
Intensive, image-driven discourse on the proliferating numbers of state players and their strengths/weaknesses within Africa
Worldwide understanding of the foreign state oil companies in or entering Africa, based on our direct relationships and advisory practice
Critical insights on the diverse portfolios in play for unlocking Africa’s oil and gas natural capital, as the continent’s economic growth driver
Significance of the surge towards resource nationalism in key African countries, for energy/oil-gas investments and corporate investment strategies
Drivers of the competitive game in Africa, the lunge by Great Powers (China, India, Russia, Europe, Latins), with the rise of state oil entities
The shaping of foreign/domestic oil and gas investment trends Africa-wide, and implications for local and foreign company players alike
Emerging corporate ventures and state oil/energy bottlenecks (in resource nationalism, infrastructure, capital markets) for the growth path forward
Intelligence and insight unavailable elsewhere, with rich-content, to reveal the evolving oil and gas landscapes across Africa
This is “Africa Unseen”, portrayed in 500 selected and content-rich images, based on original thinking and deep understanding of global and Africa-specific state oil geopolitics, framed within the realpolitik of political economy hardball, without facile “sound bites” or naive interpretation, and built on decades of direct exposure across almost all African countries.

Well over 750 senior executives and state oil officials have attended our African National Oil Companies Strategy Briefings over the last decade.

Participants benefit from deep understanding of state oil player strategies, access to unique images and knowledge, high-level networking, with Luncheon and Cocktails, prior to our 12th Africa Independents Forum 2015 and related PetroAfricanus Reception following on the evening of Wednesday 27th May, with Guest Speaker (Brian O’Cathain, Chief Executive, Petroceltic international).

Delegates receive direct online access to all Presentations, with unique insights from our 8th African National Oil Companies: Strategy Briefing 2015 held in London, and containing around 500 Images on Africa’s National Oil Companies and Governments, crafted by Duncan Clarke.

Jodee Lourensz
Global Pacific & Partners
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