Eastern Africa

The Eastern Africa Energy Conference 2010 currently taking place in Kenya is to showcase East Africa as a new oil exploration frontier in the region.

The conference is part of worldwide suite of senior management events in/on Africa that has been conducted annually for over 16 years, and is endorsed by the Ministry of Energy, Kenya and the National Oil Corporation of Kenya.

Participating states and experts will examine emerging global oil and gas issues, economics and models driving the industry besides the black gold’s curse among others.

Further, Government policies, state interventions in the oil/energy market, state oil/energy companies, private energy investments and interests, corporate portfolio and strategies, new entrants, competition and regulation, inter-fuel issues, product pricing, taxation and the financing of non-hydrocarbon ventures, plus critical issues impacting the Eastern African future will be discussed.

It showcases the regional oil/gas and energy game in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, DRC, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Seychelles, Madagascar and Mocambique, and focuses on the corporate players (private and state entities) that are shaping the fast-moving dynamics one of the Continent’s rapidly growing energy markets – upstream, midstream, downstream, and in gas/power, CBM/CTL, as well as in renewables and biofuels.

On the first evening of the Eastern Africa Energy Conference organizers will host the 31st PetroAfricanus Dinner, with Guest Speaker: Jeff Hume, Managing Director, Upstream Petroleum Consultants.

Inside the week is a special and unique 3rd Petroleum Industry Fundamentals Industry Training Workshop presented by Dr Duncan Clarke, the world’s leading authority on African oil and gas and global national oil companies, as well as the author of the widely-acclaimed Crude Continent; The Struggle for Africa’s Oil Prize (Profile, 2008).