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Due Diligence: the devil is in the detail
Rockflow Resources have provided expert multi-disciplinary teams to perform technical due diligence on a large number of assets throughout the world. More often than not, our work unearths problems that are not evident in the vendor’s sales case, or even the in dataroom, often resulting in a decision not to make a bid on an asset
Nicola Adams, BP
The biggest challenge is for the decision makers who are in the senior roles now to identify these individuals and support them in development – putting resources or reputation at risk to do so.
Marijn Spruit
With all the headlines on trade wars, sanctions, Turkey, Argentina, etc., we sometimes lose sight of the fact that the growth of oil product demand is continuing at an unprecedented pace.
Eric Bonnin, TOTAL E&P Senegal
Though oil and gas discoveries took place recently in the MSGBC basin, it is still an under-explored basin. Current exploration activities target deep offshore plays which is of the domain in which Total is recognized as a leader by the industry.
Samuel Edmund, OMA Group Director, OMA Group
The MSGBC region is a rapidly developing area for the oil & gas sector and as a consequence, the industry demands that challenges in developing the much-needed logistics infrastructure, are quickly overcome.
Greg Mogan, Woodside Energy
In the past year Woodside Energy has completed capacity training for the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development; submitted their Evaluation Report with their Exploitations Plan to be submitted to the Government shortly; substantially progressed their Environment and Social Impact Assessment; and technically matured their project in anticipation of front-end engineering and design entry by the end of the year.
Heather Christie-Burns, High Ground Energy Inc.
The biggest challenge is for the decision makers who are in the senior roles now to identify these individuals and support them in development – putting resources or reputation at risk to do so.
Newswire: Clean Energy in Latin America – September 2018
The top headlines from September 2018 from the Latin America Clean Energy sector
New Technological Frontiers in the Oil and Gas Industry
The oil and gas sector has embraced innovation since its beginnings in the 19th century, and its response to the digital revolution now unfolding continues this tradition. Powerful new technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud applications, have upgraded or overtaken old ones.
The Quest for a Balanced Host Government Contract: an MSGBC Basin Perspective
Local content is increasingly a priority for host States in Africa when negotiating HGCs. Unfortunately, on many occasions the provisions end up as little more than simple requirements to source labour and materials locally or contribute to a training fund, without taking into account the capacity of local industry to meet the demand or how best to increase that capacity.
Cheikh Benhmeida, Sepco Industries SA
A genuine effort of identification of possible candidates throughout the region to be accompanied by operators to become visible examples for others to follow and compete with. In my view, this is the only sustainable impact, which can continue beyond extractive industry limited activities period.
Jose Penafiel
Latin America has rightly been identified as a region that has tremendous potential. There are many basins which have been underexplored and contain large potential conventional prizes to be claimed.