Conference Day Two: 2nd December 2009

8:30 Registration

9:00 Chairman’s Welcome

Seyed Ebrahimi
Director Contractual and Legal Affairs
NIOC

9:15 Keynote Opening Address: Aligning Local Content Development In Angolan Operations

Anibal Octavio Texeira da Silva
Vice Minister Petroleum
Angola

9:45 Increase Local Capacity In Fabrication Projects

  • Challenges and opportunities in fabrication projects
  • Key programmes to excel training
  • A look at the future initiatives

Uyi Omoregi
Coordinator NCD
Nigerdock

10:15 Assess The Strategic Management Of Local Content Aspects In The Oil And Gas Sector Within Sub-Saharan Africa: An Assessment Of Current Practice And Future Trend

  • Importance of local content in the Energy Industry
  • An overview of the current strategies and issues in the downstream sector
  • The key perspective of Policy Makers and Multinationals
  • Analyse the future trends across Africa

Charlemagne Kuekam
PhD, Operations Manager
Libya Oil

10:45 Networking Coffee Break

11:15 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Emerging Local Content Development In East Africa – The Case Of Uganda

  • Examine the governments recent initiatives
  • The key approach within Uganda for local content and oil and gas development
  • The future ahead

Hon. Eng. Simon Giu D'ujanga
Minister of State for Energy
Uganda

11:45 Regional Breakouts

Regionally Africa has is spread in its degree of local content policy and development. From East to West to North to South, Local Content means different things within Upstream and Downstream operations. One key common goal is to ensure the sustainability of local enterprise development that benefits both the investor and country. Understanding the importance of drilling down to the real issues of local content development, these sessions give all project partners working within the region an opportunity to discuss debate and dissect the critical developments in their region and specific countries.

Southern and Central Africa Local Content developments

45 minutes country specific discussions including (Angola, Namibia, South Africa, Mozambique, Zambia)

Delegates will break out into country specific groups and set an agenda to discuss important issues on Local Content within their country

45 Minutes Regional Benchmarking
Following on from the country specific discussions, a regional panel will be set up to discuss significant benchmarks across the region. Key areas covered include:

1. Policy review and legislative development country by country
2. Future of oil and gas development in Southern Africa
3. Local content for LNG projects
4. Insights from local companies, NOC’s and IOC’s in regions
5. Country specific discussions

Regional Panel Members include:

Anibal Octavio Texeira da Silva
Vice Minister Petroleum
Angola

Local Content official
Sonangol

Dr Faizel Mulla
Corporate Strategy Manager
Petro SA

Muzi W. Mkhize
Chief Director: Hydrocarbons, Department of Energy
South Africa

Eastern Africa Local Content developments

45 minutes country specific discussions including (Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Congo)

Delegates will break out into country specific groups and set an agenda to discuss important issues on Local Content within their country

45 Minutes Regional Benchmarking
Following on from the country specific discussions, a regional panel will be set up to discuss significant benchmarks across the region. Key areas covered include:

1. Emerging policy review and development in East Africa
2. Is there a possibility to create a regional wide local content plan?
3. Future of oil and gas in East Africa
4. Insights from local companies, NOC’s and IOC’s in regions
5. Country specific discussions

Regional Panel Members include:

Eng. Bashir Mrindoko
Commissioner for Energy, Ministry of Energy and Minerals
Tanzania

Hon. Eng. Simon Giu D'ujanga
Minister for State of Energy & Mineral Development
Uganda

Charles Ocici
Executive Director
Enterprise Uganda

13:15 Networking Lunch

14:15 TRAINING PANEL SESSION: Creating Skills And Training Programs Designed To Meet Sustained Performance Levels Particularly In More Challenging Oil And Gas Projects – Learning From Programmes That Work

  • Ensuring the management of skills and production expertise to be able to match product quality requirements of TNCs – programs and lessons in place
  • Delivering capacity in complex operations such as Fabrication and LNG project
  • How complex is it to achieve standardisation?
  • Ensuring national training standards

Uyi Omoregie
Coordinator, NCD
Nigerdock

Z. D. Suleiman
Nigerian Content Coordinator
Brass LNG Limited

J.O.C Ikeako
Registrar
Council of Nigeria Mining Engineers & Geoscientists

15:00 Local Content Developments And Challenges In LNG – The Brass LNG Experience

  • An overview of the Brass LNG Project
  • Communicating the local content objectives
  • An understanding of the Local Content Initiatives and their execution
  • The main challenges and steps to overcome them
  • A look at the way forward

Z. D. Suleiman
Nigerian Content Coordinator
Brass LNG Limited

15:45 Networking Coffee Break

16:15 Setting The Preparedness Of African SMEs For Participation In Global Value Chains

  • Translating the skills necessary for SME partners to be credible in the long-term
  • Working towards improvement in the long term through strategic systems planning
  • Creating a durable and mutually beneficial relationship between SME’s and large companies

Charles Ocici
Executive Director
Enterprise Uganda

17:00 Q&A Discussion On Financing Local Content

Financing, especially in light of the current climate, has been identified as one of the biggest challenges for local content development. In this session companies will divide into regional groups and analyse the financial challenges that affect the execution of their models.

  • Squaring the economies of Africa to secure financing – bridging the gap when capacity is there but funding is not
  • What your local content plan needs to show to secure the right level of financing
  • Which financing structure works most effectively?

17:20 End Of Conference

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