The inaugural West Latin America Oil & Gas 2015 Summit will be held on September 29-30 in Cartagena, Colombia.
Organised by business information group International Research Networks (IRN) and Grupo BG de Eventos, the summit will concentrate on new developments and projects taking place in Colombia, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Mexico.
The event will present information about ongoing licensing opportunities, 2D- and 3D-seismic campaigns, regulatory frameworks and fiscal incentives for investors, as well as pipeline projects, investment opportunities and operations.
In addition to local industry experts, representatives from government ministries in the region will be in attendance, presenting changes in legislation and concession plans.
The inaugural Arabian Sea Region Oil & Gas Summit will be held at the InterContinental Muscat Hotel in the Omani capital on May 26-27.
Organised by business information group International Research Networks, the event will present investors with important information about the markets in Oman, Somalia, Yemen, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka and Iran.
Topics to be addressed at the summit include licensing rounds, investment opportunities and the latest technology in use in the Arabian Sea and surrounding countries. Attendees will benefit from networking opportunities between government representatives, specialists, international and national oil companies and other key players in the regional oil and gas industry.
The 4th Annual Gulf and Middle East Oil and Gas Security Summit will be held in Dubai on May 18-19.
This year’s forum, to be held at the Raffles Dubai Hotel, will concentrate on the increasing threat of terrorism, particularly as it relates to the rise of Islamic State militants and their sympathisers. The Islamic State group and similar organisations targeted oil and gas facilities and workers in 2014 and pose a significant threat to the industry globally.
The event is organised by business information group International Research Networks. Topics to be addressed include evacuation planning, cyber security, business continuity and crisis management planning. Speakers at the forum will include senior-level experts from a wide range of specialities in the security sector.
The Oil & Gas Year, in partnership with Oman’s Ministry of Oil and Gas and the Oman Society for Petroleum Services (OPAL), conducted its third strategic roundtable for Oman in Muscat on May 4, 2015. The event was sponsored by Occidental of Oman and Halliburton.
Led by His Excellency Salim Al Aufi, the undersecretary at the Ministry of Oil and Gas, participants in the Strategic Roundtable discussed issues such as competition, the need for transparency in tendering processes and the importance of increasing Omani participation in the oil and gas industry. BP Oman president Yousuf Al Ojaili, Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) managing director Raoul Restucci, vice-president and general manager of Occidental of Oman Robert Swain, Halliburton Oman managing director Zeinoun Klink and Al Shawamikh Oil Services CEO Dr Hamoud Al Tobi were among the participants. An audience of representatives from local services companies was also provided the opportunity to ask questions to the panel regarding the theme of the event: the development of local services companies.
In response to Oman sliding 13 places down the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Index to position 46, H.E. Salim Al Aufi said, “The higher education and training on offer in Oman must align further with the demands of the oil and gas industry.” Galfar Engineering & Contracting CEO Hans Erlings spoke about the difficulties of Omanising labour-intensive positions within the engineering and construction sectors.
Hamoud Al Tobi, CEO of Alshawamikh Oil Services, a government established and PDO-supported super-local community contractor, said, “It is important for local communities to reap the benefits of oil and gas revenue while creating competitive Omani firms.”
The strategic roundtable will be published in The Oil & Gas Year Oman 2015, which is due to be launched in August 2015.
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On May 25, Business News Foundation will hold its second annual energy conference, entitled “Energy and the Future of Investment in Egypt.”
Supported by Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Sherif Ismail and Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy Mohamed Shaker, this year’s conference has been planned to explore Egypt’s investment strategy in light of the Egypt Economic Development Conference held in March.
Sessions and panels at the conference will examine the need for energy to fuel Egypt’s further development, the national energy mix and the country’s ongoing efforts to pay its outstanding dues to foreign oil and gas companies.
SAOGE attracts technical experts, industry professionals, specialists and decision makers in various sectors of the hydrocarbons industry. The event, to be hosted in Dammam, has become the largest oil- and gas-specific exhibition seen in more than a decade in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia.
At the SAOGE 2014 exhibition, leading the official inauguration and tour, was His Royal Highness Prince Saud Bin Naif Bin Abdulaziz, Governor of Eastern Province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, who officially opened the show.
Building on the 2014 conference, the focus will be on the hydrocarbons potential of both the Basra province and Iraq’s wider oil and gas and infrastructure industries.
The conference will present openings across Basra’s economy. Basra is the biggest oil producing province in Iraq, with more than 67.8 billion barrels of oil reserves, equivalent to a 59-percent share of the domestic total.
Now being held for the 28th time, it is the world’s largest gas event, bringing together professionals from the entire natural gas and LNG supply chain. This year’s conference will see the attendance of every major international oil and gas company, plus a multitude of national oil companies, global utility companies, engineering contractors, ship builders, manufacturers, distributors and service providers.
Included in the conference is the Centres of Technical Excellence (CoTE), a free-to-attend technical seminar programme dedicated to delivering knowledge and awareness of technological developments and applications in the gas industry. The programme, which has previously attracted an audience of over 3,000 gas professionals, will feature 80 technical seminars led by industry experts and explore the most relevant gas sectors.
E-SGOS is directed at the shale gas, coal bed methane and underground coal gasification industries for the UK and Europe.
To be held in Manchester, UK, the third edition of E-SGOS will be attended by central and local governments, energy institutions, operators, contractors, services companies and industry stakeholders. E-SGOS 2015 will host 40 speakers, three conferences, 400 attendees and 30 exhibitors.
To be hosted in Bangkok, Thailand, the main topics of the 2015 OpEx Asia conference include successful operational excellence implementation, engaging people to drive operational excellence, how to promote operational excellence in projects, revamps and normal operations, measuring and improving asset performance, leveraging technology to drive operational excellence and sustainability, and reliability, integrity and sustainability.
The OpEx Asia conference follows OpEx events in the Middle East and Russia.
