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ContentsSeptember/October 2019 Vol. 16 Issue 5 New Products & Services Sercel Launches GPR – A New Ocean Bottom Node 22 Schlumberger Introduces Cutting-Edge Intelligent Wireline 22 Clariant Opens HTE Lab in Houston 23 Halliburton Introduces CommanderTM Full Bore Cement Head 23 Technology and Solutions Getting Closer to Deepwater Reservoirs with Pioneering OBN Imaging 24 Monthly Focus Uganda Open for Business 26 Downstream Focus Greater Tortue / Ahmeyin LNG Project 28 28 Greater Tortue Ahmeyim LNG Development Source: BP Local Impact Engen takes a Stand Against Artisan Shortages and Unemployment 30 Policy & Legislation 40 New Senegal Oil & Gas Legislation 32 Deepsea Stavanger 2 offshore Mozambique African Focus Africa Energy Corp Source: Overview: South Africa 36 Mozambique 40 ON THE COVER Uganda’s Kingfisher DEPARTMENTS by night. Moving On 4 Power & Alternatives 44 Message from the Editor 6 Market Movers 46 African Politics 8 Around the World 48 Africa’s Big Five 10 Facts and Figures 52 Africa at Large 14 Conferences 54 Downstream News 18 Advertisers’ Index 54 Source: Petroleum E&P Department, Ministry of Energy Source: Petroleum E&P and Mineral Development, Uganda Petroleum Africa September/October 2019 3 MOVING ON Benedict Peters, chairman and CEO of Nigerian consultant, having previously worked within a American business firm Aiteo, will serve on the board of advisors senior pipeline position for six years at Spirit magnate, oil tycoon and of the US Chamber of Commerce’s US-Africa Energy, as well as engineering roles at Wood, financier T. Boone Pickens Business Center. Subsea 7 and Technip. The second appointment passed away on Sept 11. A saw Chris Overton joining the company as a trained geologist, Pickens Energy rental and service company, Tiger Rentals principal consultant, following seven years as started his oil career with announced the appointment of Paulo Silva Curto senior pipeline integrity engineer at Repsol Phillips Petroleum before as business development manager for the Middle Sinopec. starting his own company, East. Curto has over 15 years’ experience working T. Boone Pickens Mesa Petroleum, in 1956, in international business, most recently he was which grew into one of the largest independent Tiger’s general manager for sub-Saharan Africa. oil companies in the world. He became well known for many of the numerous oil company Neconde Energy has a new head of gas ventures, takeovers during his illustrious career. Pickens Chichi Emenike. Emenike has a host of industry was 91 at the time of his passing. experience working with such firms as ExxonMobil and Sun Trust Oil Company. Prior Chris Tong has retired as a director of Kosmos to joining Neconde, Emenike was head of business Energy as of September 18. Steven Sterin, a and commercial operations at Falcon Corp. Hunter Stept Brad Richards current director of Kosmos and member of the company’s Audit Committee has replaced Tong Tanzania’s president, John AMETEK SMP Wallingford appointed as Chairman of the Audit Committee, effective Magufuli, has reinstated Hunter Stept as process engineer at its immediately. James Mataragio as Specialty Metal Products division in managing director of the Wallingford. AMETEK SMP also appointed Following the acquisition of Petronor by African country’s state-run oil Dr. Brad Richards as product manager, Petroleum, changes have been made to the board. and gas firm, TPDC. Powders. The new board of directors consists of Eyas Mataragio had been Alhomouz (Chairman), Dr. David King, Jens suspended since Maria Moraeus Hanssen, COO and Deputy Pace, Stephen West, Bjarne Moe, Timothy James Mataragio August 2016. CEO of Wintershall Dea, will leave the company Turner, Joseph Iskander and Knut Søvold. as of December 31 to pursue other opportunities. Changes were also made changes to its The Supervisory Board of OMV Until that time, she will continue in her present executive management. The new management Aktiengesellschaft reappointed Rainer Seele as role providing board-level leadership of the will see Jens Pace as CEO, Stephen West is CFO, its chairman of the executive board and CEO of EMEA business units and the merger integration. Michael Barrett exploration director, Knut OMV. Seele’s reappointment extends his term to A recruitment process for her successor is Søvold is COO, Gerhard Ludvigsen is business June 2022 with an option to extend for one underway. development manager and Claus Frimann-Dahl additional year. Johann Pleininger, chief is chief technical officer. upstream operations officer, was also reappointed FAR Ltd appointed Timothy Woodall as an as executive board member and deputy chairman executive director of the company. The WFS Technologies of the board. appointment was effective September 1. appointed a new chief Woodall brings over 30 years’ experience in the technology officer – Jim The Chinese government has shuffled the financial sector with a focus on the oil and Darroch. He has a host of chairman and chief executive of state-owned oil gas industry. experience, most recently giant China National Offshore Oil Corporation with Honeywell. Prior to (CNOOC), Yang Hua, to a new position. Yang’s Petrolia NOCO AS appointed Linn Katrine Honeywell, Darroch spent new post will see him become general manager Høie as managing director for the company. Høie several years at Artesyn of China’s chemical manufacturer and trader will be responsible for taking the company forward Jim Darroch (formerly Emerson) as Sinochem. in the next stage of its growth. She comes to senior director and VP of Engineering. Petrolia NOCO with broad experience from the Eugene Woychyshyn was appointed as VP of energy sector, most recently working Centurion Law Group appointed US-trained Finance and CFO of NXT Energy Solutions Inc. with digitalization of field development for Nigerian attorney Onyeka C. Ojogbo to lead its Woychyshyn’s appointment was effective Aker BP. team and operations in its newly opened immediately. He has been the company’s interim office in Germany. In her new role, Ojogbo will CFO since December 2018 and its controller Dr. Stuart Lake has joined Invictus Energy as be handling a growing portfolio of clients since November 2017. the non-executive chairman, this was effective coming from Germany and Western Europe, August 1. Dr Lake has over 34 years industry and will work on further attracting Xodus Group has two new principal consultants experience, most recently as CEO of AGM investments from European energy companies to its subsea integrity management team. Djamal Petroleum. He was also CEO at African into Africa. Hamel has been appointed to the role of principal Petroleum Corp. To include a corporate personnel announcement in Moving On, write to [email protected]. Preference will be given to Africa-specific appointments and to those companies who have interests within the continent; all others will be included on a space available basis. 4 Petroleum Africa September/October 2019 CONTACT US MESSAGE Deputy Editor Advertising Representatives Jennifer Nickle Austria, Germany, Switzerland FROM THE EDITOR jnick• Eisenacher Medien [email protected] Erhardt Eisenacher As we are all aware, China has expanded into emerging markets the world over and African Tel: +49 0228 2499 860 nations are no exception. Countries in Africa are receiving significant Chinese investments Senior Correspondent into their economies across numerous sectors. In the year 2000, China’s investment in the Mark Pabst [email protected] continent was at about $10 billion; fast forward to 2019 and that figure sits at a staggering figure of over $200 billion and makes China Africa’s largest trading partner. Contributors Ghana CGG Research Development & Africa now boasts six of the world’s fastest growing economies, and China, in part, has Hugo Moreira Financial Consultants Ltd. been a catalyst to this development. Cote d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Rwanda, Senegal and South Sudan make up Africa’s presence in the global Top 10. It will come as no surprise, Tel: +233 302 767 919 then, that China is the top import partner for four of the six countries and comes in second Operations Manager [email protected] with Senegal and third with South Sudan. According to a Financial Times (FT) report, China Alan Younes surged to become Ghana’s top trading partner, with “bilateral trade rising from less than Italy $100 million in 2000 to $6.7 billion in 2017.” Art Director Ediconsult Internazionale China’s investments are attractive to African governments as they come mostly with no Mario Saad Anna De Bortoli strings attached unlike deals made with Western investors who attach a long check list of Tel: +39 02 477 100 36 requirements. Often when making deals with China, African governments turn a blind eye Client Relations and [email protected] to their own local content requirements, and Chinese workers perform a good deal of the Digital Media Manager work. Also attractive to African governments is that deals with the Chinese affords them Frederick Caccamo Jr. the opportunity to avoid bureaucracy related to transparency issues, especially in the South Africa extractives industry. In short, there are far fewer strings attached to Chinese investment. Antonette Benting Circulation Manager Tel: +27 82 414 8191 This Africa-China love affair may be hitting some snags, however. As these economies Silvia Rafaat [email protected] mature, and as new Chinese-led projects come to fruition, Africans are increasingly taking note of some of the pitfalls in the partnerships as compared to those with western nations. Distribution Coordinator On the other side of the coin, China might become a bit more cautious with its investments Amira A.Wahab North America as not all projects are panning out as planned; Ethiopia and Ghana serve as examples. Farrah Younes Tel/Fax: +1 713 867 9394 One such example can be seen in Ghana where there has been a backlash against the Chinese, Database Coordinator especially in the gold mining industry, with locals unhappy that the contractors are getting Olabisi Ijeh [email protected] an unfair share of their national wealth.