Conference Day One: 1st December 2009

08:20 Registration

08:50 Chairman’s Welcome:

Achille Toto Same
Advisor
African Development Bank

09:00 Welcoming Keynote Introduction: Stimulating Economic Development Within The Hydrocarbons Sector In South Africa

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

10:15 Understand The Concept, Strategies, Principles, Rules And Regulations Of Local Content In Oil And Gas Producing Countries

  • Developmental objectives vs. commercial interest of local content
  • Strategies and process to deliver local content goals
  • Strategy, principles and procedures for local content
  • Approach for local content in engineering, procurement of equipment, materials and services and construction
  • Effective delivery of local content necessitates for a long term commitment
  • Local content limitations/exclusions
  • Discovering challenges in local Content compliance and how to address them

Seyed Ebrahimi
Director of Contractual and Legal Affairs
NIOC

11:00 Networking Coffee Break

11:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Explore The Steps Taken In Ghana To Put Local Content Into Practice Within The Oil And Gas Industry

  • Examine the governments recent proposal
  • What were the steps taken to attract foreign investment
  • The local content approach in Ghana

HON Dr Kwabena Donkor
Deputy Minister for Energy
Ghana

12:00 Regional Breakouts

Regionally Africa 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

West Africa Local Content developments

45 minutes country specific discussions including (Nigeria, Ghana, Equatorial Guinea, Cote D’Ivoire, Guinea Bissau, Sierra Leone, Benin)

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. Assessing similarities and differences between emerging and more advanced local content models in West Africa – what can one learn from the other?
3. What are significant needs of the region?
4. Setting and meeting targets
5. Insights from local companies, NOC’s and IOC’s in regions
6. Country specific discussions

Regional Panel Members include:

Upstream Petroleum
House of Representatives
(Nigeria)

Senator Lee Maeba Chairman for Upstream Resources Committee
National Assembly
(Nigeria)

Hon Dr Kwabena Donkor
Deputy Minister for Energy
(Ghana)

Santiago -José NDOND NOMO
Dirección General del Comercio Ministerio de

Economía
Comercio y Promoción Empresarial
(Equatorial Guinea)

Serapio Sima Ntutumu
Deputy Director
Sonagas


Northern African Local Content developments

45 Minutes country specific discussions including (Libya, Egypt, Djibouti, Tunisia, Algeria)

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. IOC/NOC collaboration to address local enhancement
3. Creating proper enforcement models
4. Local content in the downstream and gas sector
5. Insights from local companies, NOC’s and IOC’s in regions
6. Country specific discussions

Regional Panel Members include:

Ing. Farah ALI AINAN
Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources
Republic of Djibouti

Charlemagne Kuekam
PhD, Operations Manager
Libya Oil

13:30 Networking Lunch

14:30 Speed Networking

Short-list your top business partners and have the opportunity to exchange details with every member of the delegate audience.

15:00 Ensuring Oil And Gas Windfall Management To Promote Local Content For A Sustained Economic Growth

  • Explanation on the disconnect between Oil and Gas sectors and the real economy
  • How Oil and Gas revenues accruing to African governments can fuel local content activities
  • Does the Political economy matter? Should it be the leading managerial factor in Oil and Gas contexts
  • The role of good leadership to catalyze local content and sustained economic developments
  • What African governments can do and what has been successfully done elsewhere
  • Why an effective utilisation of windfall is beneficial for both FOCs and the NOCs:
  • Going beyond transparency discussions

Achille Toto Same
Senior Advisor
African Development Bank

15:45 Successfully Manage Local Content Obligations Across Your Operations: A Global Players Experience

*Session still available

16:15 Networking Coffee Break

INTERACTIVE PRESENTATION AND DEBATE

16:45 Local Content Development: Lessons From Experience And Possible Ways Forward

This session will seek to provide a brief overview of local content development policies in high and middle-income countries around the world and to propose a simple framework for assessing/ranking alternative investment opportunities for local content promotion. Following this session an interactive debate and discussion will occur provide an opportunity to discuss and define a set of overarching principles (best practices) for local content promotion applicable to the African continent based on experience. Also, it should foster discussion on the suitability of the scorecard system to rank local content investment initiatives. In reviewing the international experience, emphasis will be placed on five overarching principles (best practices) underlying successful local content development experiences. Namely, accountability, adequate metric and definition, efficiency, information dissemination, and acknowledgement of spin-off effects. The presentation will briefly review the implementation of these principles in high and middle income oil exporting countries, stressing the principles’ role in rationalising local content decisions and attenuating distortions from rent-seeking. A scorecard system, which is founded on seven economic criteria, will be proposed to rank and assess the feasibility of individual local oil businesses initiatives. These criteria include considerations regarding: capital/output ratios, production scale, know-how technology intensity, skill labor intensity, location constraints, physical and legal infrastructure requirements. For each criterion, individual business initiatives are likely to have different ratings. In final analysis, however, only those business initiatives whose cumulative score meets a pre-defined golden rule are considered suitable for local content promotion. As a practical exercise, the proposed scorecard system is applied for the case of Sao Tome and Principe.

Gonzalo Pastor
Former Mission Chief for Angola and Sao Tome & Principe
IMF African Department

17:45 Chairman’s Close And End Of Day One

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