Dear Client,
We are pleased to invite you to participate in our 16th Annual Angola Summit ‘Developing a Roadmap for the Energy Transition’.
The summit will be held 18 & 19 October 2017 at the Skyna Hotel, Luana, Angola.
To ensure project success it is imperative that competitive financial incentives are introduced. Given the global competition for project funding and to ensure that exploration on both onshore and offshore blocks are attractive, it is important that Angola has attractive financial terms and conditions.
Key Strategic Themes include:
These key themes will be featured in the Opening Day Management Session; and in turn these themes will be featured in the other summit sessions.
We are pleased to introduce two of our Key Speakers;
Dr Qi Chen, Director of Chiron AlkaTrans Technology, is a developer, practitioner, manager, and advisor
in the oil, gas and petrochemical industry. He runs an consultancy from The Netherlands, with support from a worldwide network of experienced professionals with all disciplines. His consultancy focuses on the following key expertise areas:
Gas development master planning and project development, emphasizing midstream solutions
Process technology development, commercialization, transfer, and education
Qi has previously worked in a broad range of roles with operating and service companies. These included process technology, design and engineering, project development and management, contracting and sourcing, and business development. His career has taken him to a variety of locations including The Netherlands, China, Singapore, and Malaysia.
Dr Ken Seymour graduated from Leeds University, UK with a first class BSc honours degree in Mining Engineering & a PhD in Rock Mechanics. He has worked with major and minor E&P companies for over 35 
years as Drilling Engineer, Drilling Superintendent, Drilling Manager, General Manager, Director and Adviser in the North Sea and on international assignments in China, Pakistan, Angola, Nigeria and Indonesia. He obtained an MBA in 1994 from the Aberdeen Universities and has authored twenty presentations on well engineering and upstream management.
It is our hope that this summit can help stimulate thought and be a catalyst for developing future scenarios for the energy sector.
We look forward to working with you.
Kind regards,
Gerard Kreeft
Managing Director
PROGRAMME
Morning Day 1, 18 October 2017
Management Session: Establishing the Priorities
Ensuring a competitive fiscal-economic regime
Precioso Domingos, Professor, CEIC (Centro de Estudos e Investigação Cientifica & Faculty of Economics and Management, Catholic University of Angola
Putting Together the Pieces of the Angola Gas Masterplan: A Roadmap for Developing Angola’s Gas Assets
Dr Qi Chen, Director, Chiron AlkaTrans Technology
Refreshment Break 10:30 – 11:00
How Nigeria/ Canada/United States of America (USA) have Adapted to New Onshore Realities
Dr Ken Seymour, Consultant
Developing the Onshore Blocks
Angolan Geoscience Company Association (AEAGSAP)
Executive Panel: Assessing & Prioritizing Strategic Choices
Afternoon Day 1, 18 October 2017
Re-evaluating & Optimizing the Deepwater Assets: Lower for Longer
A Perspective for the Offshore Construction Industry,
João Lopes, Business Development Manager, Sub-Sea 7
Surviving in Today’s Marketplace: The Case of AkerSolutions,
Claudio Louisado, Business Development Manager, AkerSolutions (Angola)
Refreshment Break: 15:30 – 16:00
Free Hanging Composite Risers for Ultra Deepwater SURF
Peter Aarts, Airborne Oil and Gas
Asset Integrity, New Technologies and Innovative Approaches in DeepwaterTheatres
Alexandre Mitchell, Head Engineering, Saipem (Angola)
Summary Panel
Morning Day 2, 19 October 2017
New Business Opportunities for the Onshore
How the Onshore Roadmap can be put togehter
Dr Ken Seymour, Consultant
Putting the Roadmap in Place
Angolan Geoscience Companies Association (AEAGSAP)
Panel: How to adapt to the New Reality
Refreshment Break 10:30 – 11:00
Final Session (continued)
How the Gas Roadmap can be put Together
Dr Qi Chen, Director, Chiron AlkaTrans Technology
Outling Angola’s Long-term Energy Vision
Ministry of Energy & Water, Speaker to be announced
Developing a Strategy so that Angola can Become an Energy Transition Champion
Gerard Kreeft, Managing Director EnergyWise
Closing of Summit