Day One World NOCs Congress - Wednesday 20 June 2012

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8am

Registration Opens

8.55am

Chairman’s opening remarks

ENERGY SECURITY AND SUSTAINABILITY

9am

Keynote address: Optimizing energy policies to mitigate energy uncertainties, ensure energy security, build partnerships and tackle climate change

H.E. Jose Maria Botelho de Vasconcelos

Posts held: Technical Electrical Engineer, Industrial Technology Institute of Luanda, 1974 Engineer Maintenance Technician, Cabinda Gulf Oil Company, 1974–76 Marketing of Derivatives of Petroleum, Belgium, 1976 Deputy Inspector of the Directorate of ...

How will the oil market develop in the short to medium term? What are the strategies to secure supply to the market?
What is the impact and implications of the political situation in MENA on energy security and oil and gas volatility? How can energy leaders react?
What will be the full impact of the Fukushima nuclear disaster on global energy policies?
Reinforcing hydrocarbon reserves to meet growing global demand
What cooperation models need to exist to ensure a sustainable energy future?
What can be done to meet the energy policy challenge of climate change?

› H.E. Jose Maria Botelho de Vasconcelos, Minister of Petroleum, Angola and President of the OPEC Conference 2009, Angola

9.30am

Keynote address: Meeting the global and local responsibilities of energy companies

Jay Pryor

Jay Pryor is vice president at Chevron Corporation. He is responsible for identifying and developing new, large-scale upstream and downstream business opportunities, including mergers and acquisitions. A native of Mississippi, Pryor earned his...

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What responsibilities do oil and gas operators now have? How will these evolve in the future? How will they be met?
How will the future dynamic between NOCs, IOCs and Oil Service Companies evolve? What role will partnership models have in meeting operator responsibilities?
How to build partnerships that are mutually profitable and at the same time meet global energy responsibilities
How are investment strategies changing and how will they evolve to achieve energy security?

› Jay Pryor, VP Business Director, Chevron USA Inc

10am

Keynote address: how will Petrobras’ growth plans be achieved?

How will Petrobras achieve its growth plans and planned capacity increase?
Petrobras’s production outlook in the short and medium term
How is Petrobras’s international strategy evolving? What partnerships are required?
Developing technologies for exploration, analysis and for production development

10.20am

Networking tea and coffee

11.15am

Keynote speech: Overcoming the challenges of implementing NOC globalization ambitions

Mr Jon Clark

Jon has advised on international acquisitions, divestments and fund-raisings covering around 30 countries globally and acting for many Oil & Gas companies including BP, Chevron, Shell, ONGC Videsh, Hellenic Petroleum, Saudi Aramco, PetroSA, RWE...

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NOC strategies for accessing new markets and increasing market share / reserves
Securing funding in international capital markets for expansion plans
Building international organisation, management and governance capabilities

› Mr Jon Clark, Partner, Ernst & Young

NOC-IOC SYMPOSIUM

11.45am

Creating successful cross-border partnerships and JVs

Mr Thomas Langford

Tom Langford is a Managing Director and Global Head of Energy Investment Banking. Mr. Langford recently joined UBS from Morgan Stanley, where he spent seventeen years as an investment banker covering the energy industry, most recently serving as...

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Where are the opportunities for NOCs to put capital to work?
What is the competitive landscape amongst NOCs and IOCs?
Who is winning?

› Mr Thomas Langford, Global Head of Energy, UBS Investment Bank

12.15pm

Keynote Panel: How can NOCs and IOCs create genuine win win partnerships and alliances?

Mr Tony Hayward

Tony Hayward studied geology at Aston University in Birmingham and completed a PhD at Edinburgh University. He was Group Chief Executive of BP from 2007 to 2010 having joined BP in 1982 as a rig geologist in the North Sea. Following a series of...

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Khaled Al-Sumaiti

Khalid Ali Alsumaiti has been the Deputy Managing Director (Exploration & Prod. Dev.) for Kuwait Oil Company since 2007.

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Mr Christoph Schlichter

Since June 2008, Christoph Schlichter has been Senior Vice President Production North Africa at RWE Dea AG, Hamburg, Germany. He is responsible for RWE Dea's operations in Libya and Egypt as well as for RWE Dea’s interests in Algeria. From 2002 to...

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Moderator:

Ben Knowles

Ben Knowles is a Partner at Clyde & Co.

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What do IOCs want from the relationship? What do NOCs want? Is this changing?
What synergies could/should NOCs and IOCs develop?
How is the emergence of ‘International’ NOCs impacting the relationship? Competition vs cooperation
What will be the impact of unconventional oil and gas on the relationship between NOCs and IOCs?
What is the optimal framework for collaboration?
How should technology development and deployment take place to ensure maximum mutual benefit?
How are the repercussions of new regulations and new safety challenges impacting the NOC-IOC relationship?
How can NOCs, IOCs and Service companies work together to tackle the skills shortage, HR, training and manpower challenges?
How can technology transfer and capacity buildiing be guaranteed – and how should it be done?
How can you generate greater economic value for all stakeholders?
How to structure agreements to mitigate legal risk
Understanding the consequences of poorly structured agreements – Yemen case study