Global Pacific & Partners are pleased to advise on the following updates on the 21st Africa Oil Week/Africa Upstream Conference:

THE HAGUE, THE NETHERLANDS, October 7, 2014 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The 21st Africa Oil Week/Africa Upstream Conference will once again shape the Continental deal flow, critical relationships, and showcase the countries and corporate players making the future – in exploration across new frontiers and established basins, with new technologies, in oil/energy finance, and across the value chain.
Since 1994 this event has been widely recognised for forging and enhancing relationships between both companies and governments. As numerous top-level executives in the global industry have oft-noted, Africa Upstream-Africa Oil Week stands apart from all other events as a leading meeting in the global oil-gas calendar.

Over 100 top-level corporate speakers - all re-confirmed
• Apart from several Ministers, over 30 Governments and African National Oil Companies are in attendance.
• Sold-out Exhibition of 150+ stands - but have now added 6 new stands to create additional exhibition space.
• Expected attendance now likely at or beyond last year’s record number (1,600), with over 1,250 delegates from around the world already registered to come – and many more senior executives signing-in daily.
• Monday-Friday blue-chip networking and five-star social functions: breakfasts, cocktail receptions, and waterfront dinners, with the end-of-conference Grand Africa Beach Café Braai-BBQ.
• New Sponsors include: HRT Petroleum (Brazil), Cairn India, Aiteo Production & Development Company, Norton Rose Fulbright, Valient Energy, Petrolin Group, Greenberg Traurig
• Media Support: The Financial Times
• Ministry of Gabon to host a meeting room during the Event
• Theo Ahwireng, Chief Executive Officer of the Petroleum Commission Ghana has joined the speaker panel and will attend with a delegation

Opening Guest Speaker is Paolo Scaroni, Deputy Chairman, Rothschild, London

Also joining our Speaker Program:

Hon, Lynne Yelich, Minister of State, Foreign Affairs & Consular, Government of Canada, Calgary
Robin Dunnigan, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Energy Resources, Washington
Hear from: Ministry of Minas, Industria y Energia, Equatorial Guinea, Empresa de Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos de Mocambique, Ministry of Mines & Energy, Namibia, Ministere du Petrole de L'Energie et des Mines, Mauritania, Ministry of Mines, Ethiopia, Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation, Ministry of Energy, Kenya, Petroleum Exploration & Production Department, Uganda, Ministry of Petroleum & Mining, South Sudan, Department of Petroleum Resources, Nigeria, Ministere des Hydrocarbures, DRC, Geological Survey Department, Malawi, Ministry of Hydrocarbons, Madagascar, Ecopetrol, Ministry of Hydrocarbons, Congo, National Petroleum Agency, Sao Tome & Principe, Petroleum Technology Development Fund (Nigeria), Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation, Ghana Oil and Gas Service Providers, ONGC-Videsh, PetroSA, JOGMEC, PetroSeychelles, Government of Canada, ONHYM, South African Oil & Gas Alliance, Agence de Gestion et de Cooperation Entre la Guinea-Bissau et le Senegal, Gabon Oil Company, Petroleum Agency SA, Total, Tullow Oil, Chevron, ENI, Oando Energy Services, Addax Petroleum, Anadarko, CNOOC Africa, Atlantic Energy, ExxonMobil, Africa Oil Kenya, Genel Energy, Global Pacific & Partners, Salama Fikira, Barcelona Centre for International Affairs, Fastnet Oil & Gas, FBN Capital, Africa Oil & Gas, BP plc, OMV, African Petroleum Corporation, BG Group, Mitsubishi, Spectrum, Sasol Petroleum International, Shell, Noble Energy, Ophir Energy, Afren, Pluspetrol, HRT Petroleum, Svenska Petroleum Exploration, Statoil, Petroceltic, Mitsui, Marathon Oil, Impact Oil & Gas Limited, TransGlobe Energy, Discover Exploration, World Bank, CAMAC Energy, PGS, CGG, Schlumberger, Compass Energy Services, Vaalco Energy, Mart Resources, TGS, Galp Energia, Fugro, Petronas, Royal African Society, Cairn India.

Numerous executives in the global industry have remarked that the annual Africa Oil Week stands apart as a leading meeting in the global oil-gas calendar.

The 16th Scramble for Africa: Strategy Briefing held on the Monday, provides unrivalled insights into the Continent’s fast-changing upstream oil and gas game, with presentations by Dr Duncan Clarke (Chairman of the Board, Global Pacific & Partners).

For more information about this event held from 3 -7 November 2014 please click here.

Babette van Gessel
Global Pacific & Partners
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