The 5th Eastern Africa Oil, Gas-LNG & Energy Conference 2014 provides unrivalled new insight into the upstream opportunities, open acreage, bid rounds, new ventures, oil/gas investments, key upstream players, and corporate/government strategies in this vast region of fifteen countries covering onshore and offshore potential, from Eritrea to South Africa, including across the Mascerene islands. The Conference, the landmark meeting on Eastern Africa, is hosted annually by Global Pacific & Partners, and will be held from 28-30 April 2014 at the InterContinental Hotel in Nairobi, Kenya, including with the widely-acclaimed pre-Conference 5th Eastern Africa Strategy Briefing, with Presentations by Dr Duncan Clarke (Chairman, Global Pacific & Partners), Africa’s foremost strategist in the upstream, and author of Africa: Crude Continent: The Struggle for Africa’s Oil Prize. The Conference showcases significant presentations of chief executives, government officials, Ministers and key players in Eastern African exploration, from within leading corporate and state oil companies as well as inside the energy finance and service/supply industry value-chain, with an important Exhibition over the Conference period. Already Eastern Africa has been transformed into a fast-emerging oil and gas frontier region. The onshore and offshore potential includes exclusive economic zones, deepwater opportunities and ultra-deep plays. The 15 nation states in the region are diverse in scale, resource potential, contract terms, and venture-types and in regard to exploration cycles and hydrocarbon discoveries. During the 5th Eastern Africa, Oil, Gas-LNG & Energy Conference 2014 around 33 key Speakers will reveal the exploration potential, future opportunities and growth held in portfolio and investment ventures in Kenya, Somalia/Somaliland, Ethiopia, Comoros, DRC, Seychelles, Tanzania, Madagascar, Burundi, Rwanda, South Africa, Malawi, South Sudan, Zambia and Uganda. Prior to the Conference the 5th Eastern Africa Strategy Briefing 2014 together with the celebrated the 57th PetroAfricanus Dinner, will be held on 29th April Over 350 senior executives attended the Conference in 2013, with 36 exhibitors, and over 90 delegates participated in the Strategy Briefing – with corporate/state players coming from over 40 countries on Six Continents including from inter alia: Kenya, Uganda, Moçambique, United Kingdom, Australia, Ethiopia, South Africa, United States of America, Canada, Nigeria, United Arab Emirates, Madagascar, France, Germany, Tanzania, India, Spain, China, Netherlands, Egypt, Hong Kong, Russia, Ireland, Norway, Switzerland, Bahrain, Kuwait, l’Union des Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Poland, Sudan, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia