Global Pacific & Partners’ 22nd Anniversary Africa Oil Week/Africa Upstream Conference 2015, the longest-running and most prominent event held worldwide in or on the Continent for its fast-growing oil, gas-LNG and energy industry. Including this year’s 13th Africa Independents Forum 2015, our 17th Scramble for Africa: Strategy Briefing, and our four-day 22nd Africa Upstream 2015 format, we welcome our blue-chip suite of world-class sponsors, an unrivalled spectrum of top-line speakers, a globally-diversified mix of senior-level government and corporate delegates, plus a much larger dedicated industry Safari Park Exhibition than ever before, and our Inaugural Africa Oil & Energy Finance Forum, the 72nd PetroAfricanus Dinner in Africa (with Guest Speaker), along with special meetings on Africa Local Content, Africa Exploration Technologies, Young Professionals in Africa, the Global Women Petroleum & Energy Club (with Guest Speaker at Luncheon), marking the 20th Anniversary Celebration of the African Institute of Petroleum, aside our 19th Annual Board Awards and Africa’s Oil Legend Ceremony, launched in tribute to those who have “made” Africa’s oil and gas game. The Continent continues to attract a steady stream of corporate oil and gas commitments – just as has this landmark Conference, one a symbiotic driver of the other, shapes the future in Africa’s oil and gas, one that will only be enhanced with time. Our firm has an established and trusted track record for over three decades in quality research, advisory practice, strategy briefings, conferences, Government Roadshows, Private Client mandates and Corporate Services enhanced with Africa-wide state relationships, global communications, media products and social connectivity networks. We have built these cross-continental ventures in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and elsewhere, and focus on Africa’s exploration industry overall, while still engaging in new and more extensive ways with the rest-of-world exploration and upstream markets. Our restructured business model now provides innovations via proprietary technologies that have redesigned our diverse communications platforms, Petro-Briefings, global digital networks, worldwide knowledge-bases, Petro21 Daily Oil & Gas Newsletter, and industry-insider enhancements to benefit corporate and investor relations. Our aims at the 22nd Africa Oil Week 2015 are to provide an event of rich-content with highest quality, first-class networking and social interface, and multiple opportunity for all to create and cement relationships that will shape the future for oil and gas in Africa, and the economic future of the Continent. With our best wishes, Duncan Clarke, Chairman of the Board Babette van Gessel, Chief Executive Global Pacific & Partners