African Oil & Gas Industry Gathers in Luanda to Accelerate Local Content

Thursday, November 10, 2016

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From the 15 – 17 November 2016 in Luanda, The African Petroleum Producers Association (APPA), will host the 1^st Africa Oil and Gas Local Content Conference and Exhibition (ALC) with a focus of “Achieving an average rate of 30% of local content in different oil and gas activities in African Petroleum Producing countries by 2030”

The event is supported by H.E. Eng José Maria Botelho de Vasconcelos, Minister of Petroleum, Republic of Angola, and H.E Mahaman Laouan Gaya, Executive Chairman of the African Petroleum Producers Association (APPA)

ALC 2016 has been designed specifically to find solutions to challenges of meeting localization requirements and building the local skills set across the hydrocarbon industry.

Industry experts will discuss topics such:  The reality of local content policies currently; how to promote local content through institutional frameworks; legislation and regulation; Nigeria’s advancements in developing local content; how to build a skilled local workforce and strategies for achieving higher local content by 2030 across the supply chain.

Speakers include:

• E. Eng José Maria Botelho de Vasconcelos, Minister of Petroleum, Ministry of Petroleum, Republic of Angola
• E. Mahaman Laouan Gaya, Executive Secretary, African Petroleum Producers Association
• Søren Frank, Managing Director, Maersk Angola
• Roger Tissot, Research Fellow, King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Centre
• Jose Bafala Itumbela, Special Advisor, Ministère des Hydrocarbures, Immeuble COHYDRO
• Onyeche Tifase, MD/CEO, Siemens Nigeria Limited
• Domingos Freitas, Country Director, Weatherford Angola
• Celio Chassungo, Efficiency Contracting and Buying Manager, Esso Angola
• Cristina Silveira, Human Resources Manager, Esso Angola
• Antonio Lino Verissimo, Consulting Leader, Deloitte Angola
• Didier Bertrane, Kaombo Project Director, Total
• Francisco Simão, Managing Counsel and Vice President Legal Affairs, BP Angola
• Andrea Moreno, Chief Compliance Officer, Grupo Mieres Angola
• Chindalena Lourenço, Attorney, Fátima Freitas Advogados
• Arron Singhe, Chief Executive Officer, Afro Petro & Business Solutions
• Simbi Wabote, Executive Secretary, NCDMB
• Akintunde Adelana, Director Monitoring and Evaluation, NCDMB
• Abdulmalik Halilu Usman, General Manager Corporate Services, NCDMB
• Ranti Omole, Chairman, PETAN
• Augustine Erharhe, Deputy Director Statistics, Ministry of Petroleum, Federal Government of Nigeria
• Dr Achille Ngwanza, Legal Consultant
• Job Vasconcelos, General Co-ordinator CAE – Centro de Apoio Empresarial
• Peter Enga, Production Manager, Societe Nationale de Hydrocarbures, Cameroon
• Augre Tchangha, Deputy Director of Strategy and Development, Societe Nationale de Hydrocarbures, Cameroon
• Alain Ludovic Okoi, CEO, Integrated Logistics Services, SNPC
• Jaime Esteves, Territory Tax Leader, PwC

The event will also feature a site visit to Sonils, a pre-conference workshop on Anticipation and settlement of local content disputes in the African oil and gas industry, as well as a focused session on Angolanisation.

ALC 2016 will bring together delegations from APPA member countries (Algeria, Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Congo, Congo DRC, Côte D’Ivoire, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Libya, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan and Tchad), industry players and decision makers with the specific goal of stimulating industrial development through increased local capacity by finding solutions to the challenges of meeting localization requirements and building the local skills set across the hydrocarbon industry.

ALC 2016 is the platform for the development of a strong collaboration between public and private sector to make local content viable for all oil and gas stakeholders.

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