Workshops

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Focus Day: Pre-conference Africa focus day
Workshop A: Establish how long term access to resources can be secured by optimising your cooperation with NOC partners
Workshop B: Discover how long term project sustainability can be gained through effective investment in narrowing the skills gap

Pre-conference Africa focus day: Tuesday 23rd September

Enhance local content development in the Gulf of Guinea through durable partnerships with foreign investors

09.00 Chairman’s Opening Remarks

09.15 Amend Your Existing Implementation Strategy In Light Of The New Nigerian Content Bill

Review the legislative history and framework of the “Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development Bill, 2008”
Gain insights into the politics and social matrix of legislating on Nigerian content development in Oil & Gas
Evaluate the implications of the Senate vote and passing of the “Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development Bill, 2008”

Senator Lee Ledogo Maeba JP
Chairman, Senate Committee on Petroleum Resources- Upstream
Nigeria

10.00 Develop A Holistic Approach To Building Local Content In Africa - An Operator’s Perspective

Raise your profi le as the partner of choice in oil & gas projects by developing a comprehensive implementation strategy
Streamline your supply chain and improve your effi ciency by working closely with domestic partners
Boost your operational performance by striking the right balance between community development

Wale Adeyemo
Contracts Manager
Chevron Nigeria

10.45 Morning Coffee

11.30 Effectively Deliver The Capability And Capacity Required In Nigeria In A Tight Global Supply Market

Assess the current and future capacity/capability demand in the oil and gas sector in Nigeria
Understand the need for joint IOC/NOC campaign to fast-track development of local supply base and tackle the capacity/capability challenges
Enhance regional cooporation and integration as a vehicle to manage the tight supply market
Improve strategy for local vendor development to enhance capacity and meet current and future demand

Engr. Simbi. K. Wabote
General Manager Nigerian Content Development
Shell Petroleum Dev. Co. Nig. Ltd

12.15 Implement Strategies For Effective National Content Development: Lessons Learned Locally And Globally

This highly interactive session will give delegates the opportunity not only to hear more on ExxonMobil’s global experience in supporting national capacity and capability building, but also engage participants in an open dialogue for effective collaboration in deliver successful initiatives in Nigeria.

Study the three key elements required to grow national content value including workforce development, supplier development and strategic community investment
Identify successful programmes to implement and deliver Nigerian Content Value
Review strategic initiatives to grow local vendors and support businesses by assisting them to develop deliverables
Help local vendors gain long-term sustainability by building goods locally to be competitive globally

Adeyinka Bashorun
Nigerian Content Development Manager
Mobil Producing Nigeria

13.00 Keynote Introductory Remarks

Cyril Odu
Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer
ExxonMobil Nigeria

13.10 Networking Lunch

14.10 Support Sustainable Economic Growth And Meet Commercial Objectives By Using Local Supplies: The Sub-Contractor’s Perspective

Assess the benefi ts of working with indigenous companies to meet local content requirements
How to work with bigger players to help them fulfi l their local content goals
What actions need to be put in place to ensure capacity building?

Captain Briggs Dokubo
President, Pet-Darl and Company
Nigeria

14.55 Afternoon Tea and Networking

15.30 Maximise The Potential Growth Of Domestic Industries While Achieving Sustainability For Your E&P Projects

This concluding panel will present a unique opportunity to raise burning questions with the offi cials who shape Nigeria’s local framework. It is an invaluable opportunity to discuss current challenges and obtain best practice guidance on implementing the new local content initiative. The session will commence with a brief overview by the panellist followed by an interactive panel discussion.

How to effectively overcome the domestic challenges in capability building efforts
What steps can investors take to ensure the long term sustainability of projects?
How do you benchmark the success of your local content implementation strategy?
How can you improve the transparency of your projects in Nigeria?

George Osahon
Group General Manager
Nigeria Content Division National Nigerian Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)

Hon. Tam Brisibe
Chairman, House of Representatives Petroleum Committee (Upstream)
Nigeria

Senator Lee Ledogo Maeba JP
Chairman, Senate Committee on Petroleum Resources (Upstream)
Nigeria

16.30 Chairman’s Concluding Remarks

Post-conference interactive workshops: Friday 26th September

09.00-12.00 Workshop A: Establish how long term access to resources can be secured by optimising your cooperation with NOC partners

This interactive brainstorming session aims to develop a strategy for enhancing the dialogue between NOCs and investors in order to maximise the benefits from the local content initiatives.

Why attend?

Implementing an effective and commercially viable local content programme has become an essential element of your operations worldwide. Ensuring a close cooperation with the NOCs will not only allow you to shape the local content framework, but will also provide you with an invaluable business partnership and guarantee your implementation process in the area of operations. Dr Ebrahimi will provide an insightful presentation on the following key issues as a background to the discussion:

How do you determine, measure & secure fulfilment of local content initiatives with your partners & key stakeholders?
Carefully examine the definition of local content in your area of operation prior to designing your implementation strategy
Develop effective strategy and procedure for implementing local content in your region of operations
Evaluate the principle challenges in complying with local content regulations and assess how you can effectively address them
What are the key challenges in measuring, evaluating and reporting local content initiatives? What are the successful schemes?
Review effective strategies of aligning government goals and your corporate objectives in local content initiatives

Meet your workshop leader:

Dr Seyed N. Ebrahimi is the Legal Counsel and a Member of the Board of PEDEC/National Iranian Oil Company and Associate Professor of International Law in Tehran. Dr Ebrahimi is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, UK; Legal Advisor to Bureau of International and Legal Services dealing with Iran-US Tribunal claims, the Hague-Tehran; member of “British Institution on International Law”, UK; member of the International Bar Association, UK; member of International Family Law Institution” the Hague, Netherlands.

12.00- 13.00 Networking lunch

13.00-16.00 Workshop B: Discover how long term project sustainability can be gained through effective investment in narrowing the skills gap

This highly interactive workshop will generate a very valuable debate on ways to overcome the challenge of developing human resource in Africa. It will also draw a number of comparisons with other regions in order to identify an effective strategy for meeting the demand for a skilled workforce in the oil & gas industry.

Why attend?

Nationalisation of labour has been classified as the most important strategy to allow you to meet local content requirements, and train a workforce to deliver your global projects. The session will unravel how forward-thinking practices in local content management can help you mitigate social and security risks. The opening presentation will report on conclusions from a study, which is being conducted this summer in partnership with oil producers, international organisations and local associates, and will provide the background for discussion on the following key themes:

Evaluate the progress of education and training programmes in Africa and use this as a benchmark for new E&P frontier countries
Develop an effective strategy for building the indigenous workforce as Africa is still under-explored
Is there a common investment strategy for global investors in Africa?
Effectively harness the benefits of future investment in the oil & gas industry
Appraise education and training programmes as the best bridge to “cross the skills gap” and increase local employment and local content in the oil & gas industry
Review how investment in education and training can contribute to long term E&P investment plans

Meet your workshop leaders:

Olivier Brenninkmeijer PhD is a Projects Manager, Researcher and Lecturer at the United Nations Office Geneva (UNOG). His interests are in innovative approaches to public-private partnerships for education and training, energy, security and dispute resolution. He teaches at the University of Business and International Studies and acts as researcher and coordinator the Geneva-based initiative on local content and training and for the African Energy Institute together with partners at the UN, the ILO, the CRES, AFREN and Petro-Logistics.

Peter Peek is an Economist and Labour Analyst with the United Nations Institute for Training & Research (UNITAR) who specialisation in economic development. He worked for the International Labour Office (ILO) as a researcher on rural development, labour migration and global poverty trends and he co-authored two books on labour and development, and published more than 30 articles in professional journals. He leads the research for the Geneva-based initiative on local content and training in partnership with the UN, the ILO, the CRES, AFREN and Petro-Logistics.

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