3rd & Final Interview - 2nd Annual Africa Gas & LNG Summit speaker - Mr Sandeep Kohli from International Finance Corporation on a LIVE interview with Regional Roundup on CNBC Africa

3rd & Final Interview (Catch-up Video) - Catch up with our 2nd Annual Africa Gas & LNG Summit speaker, Mr Sandeep Kohli from International Finance Corporation on a LIVE interview with Beyond Markets on CNBC Africa. 


Broadcast date: Friday, 22 July 2011




Time: 1600 hr - Johannesburg Time

2nd Interview - 2nd Annual Africa Gas & LNG Summit speaker - Mr Kofi Ellis LIVE interview with Beyond Markets on CNBC Africa

2nd Interview - Catch up with our 2nd Annual Africa Gas & LNG Summit speaker, Mr Kofi Ellis from Volta River Authority on a LIVE interview with Beyond Markets on CNBC Africa. 


Broadcast date: Thursday, 21 July 2011. 


Time: 1730 hr - Johannesburg Time 

Negotiating Successful Gas & LNG Contracts, Singapore, October 2011

Effective training in today’s global gas and LNG market has become an essential need for relevant executives in both the public and private sectors. The worldwide market in Pipeline Gas and LNG has grown rapidly as result of demand and deregulation, bringing tremendous business opportunities and challenges for all stakeholders including government entities, producers, sellers, transporters and buyers etc. High contract value, complicated commercial terms, volatile prices, cultural differences and many other unpredicted risks have made contract negotiating, dispute resolution and risk management more and more challenging.

In response to such industry dynamics, this advanced course provides practical and detailed training, in workshop format, and provides effective guidance in the critical considerations and conditions for successfully concluding Gas and LNG Sales Agreements. The course will enable participants to gain an insight into the way in which Buyers and Sellers view and negotiate Gas and LNG Sales Agreements, and will give participants a detailed understanding of the terms that are important in these transactions.

About your two Expert Trainers & Practitioners

Prof. Yvonne Barton MBE

Senior Associate,

The Energy Contract Company, UK

Chairman, BG Asia Pacific (former)

President, BG Italia (former)

Nick Stranks

Director and Managing Partner,

The Energy Contract Company, UK

Gas Commercialisation Manager,

BHP Billiton Petroleum (former)

Commercial Manager, Total (former)

The course goes on to examine the inherent risks in a Gas or LNG Project, and how these risks are addressed within the Gas and LNG Sales Agreement. Risk assessment is a complex issue, and this course examines it from a commercial perspective, looking at the project structure and identifying how the commercial terms deal with risk in a satisfactory manner.

Based upon a composite of recent contracts, a case study approach highlights all the issues addressed in such contracts, and examines the various alternative means of handling them. It encourages a participative workshop approach and is highlighted by a detailed examination of 1) the terms of recently concluded gas and LNG Sales contracts; and 2) the Commercial Structure of an entire project showing the balance and interaction between its various elements then 3) a detailed review of the range of price terms in a hypothetical contract negotiation.

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IFRS for Oil & Gas, Application of Key Standards and Updates, Johannesburg, South Africa, October 2011

The commercial and operational practices of the oil and gas industry pose unique challenges to accountants operating under the IFRS framework. These challenges include accounting for exploration and evaluation activities, joint venture arrangements and production sharing agreements, decommissioning costs, use of hedge accounting and the disclosure of reserves information.

NEOEDGE is bringing to you another of our premier course “IFRS for Oil & Gas, Application of Key Standards & Update” to be held in Johannesburg, South Africa from 03 to 06 October 2011.

Led by a World-class IFRS Expert & Trainer:

Alan Mayo, Director, Maltway Ltd, UK

Almost thirty years most successful professional experience

Co-founded the client training business of PwC London

This workshop focuses on those areas of most concern to the oil and gas industry. It highlights the approach to take when setting accounting policies in the absence of specific guidance within IFRS, looks at the issues in applying standards to oil and gas transactions and the accounting choices available to companies in the sector.

Specific areas treated include:

• Property, plant and equipment

• Intangibles and in particular exploration and evaluation activities

• Oil and gas reserves

• The challenges posed by impairment reviews

• Provisions, particularly decommissioning costs

• Joint venture and production sharing agreements

• Financial instruments and application of hedge accounting treatments

IFRS is constantly evolving, and the course is kept up to date with the latest Standards and Interpretations and includes sections that look at proposed and forthcoming developments.

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Mine Safety Workshop - Disaster Management, Jakarta, Indonesia, October 2011

The underground mining environment is hazardous and prone to several disasters including fire, roof collapse, inundation, gas leakage etc. It not only puts the life of the miners in peril but also causes extensive damage to the equipment, valuable resources and the environment. Inundation of Chasnala mines in which a large number of miners lost their lives and fire in large areas of Jharia coalfields where vast resources are burnt (and thus making a severe dent in the economy and the environment) are but some of the examples of how precious life and resources are lost in disasters in mines. World over, various technologies are being developed to mitigate these disasters but it needs to be debated whether there can be a single solution to address all these disasters.

In view of this, NEOEDGE is bringing to you another of our premier course “Mine Safety Workshop – Disaster Management” to be held in Jakarta, Indonesia, from 03 to 05 October 2011.

Ably led by:

Aaron Anderson, Safety Partner, Norton Rose

Aaron has been involved in advising clients on safety and emergency response for about the last 13 years working a a number of industries including mining. Some of his mining clients are Abigroup, Leighton Contractors, Bechtel, New Hope Coal, and P&H MinePro. Aaron Anderson is a specialist with Norton Rose in occupational health and safety law and injury claims management. 

Michael Tooma, Head of Occupational health, safety and security, Asia Pacific, Norton Rose

• Michael Tooma is one of Australia’s pre-eminent occupational health and safety lawyers. He leads the Asia Pacific health, safety and security practice of Norton Rose.

• Michael has one of the few truly global practices in this area, advising clients on health, safety and security compliance issues on a global basis and assisting in the development and implementation of global safety management systems.

This 3 Day intensive workshop will draw on new concepts in Mine Site Health and Safety, and prepare you to scenarios in the event of such unforeseen circumstances.

With severe natural disasters striking mines across Australia in 2010 and 2011, including cyclones, floods and fires, it has become crucial to proactively plan for catastrophes to ensure that your mine site is equipped to withstand potential events as efficiently as possible.

During this interactive workshop you will take away:

• Engaging in historical case studies and the far-reaching implications that can arise across the mine site

• Tools to identify and utilise crucial data sources to ensure early awareness of potential issues

• How to develop a Targeted Action Response Plan for an individual mine site

• How to proactively manage catastrophes to minimise damage and protect onsite assets

• An understanding of the judicial process of overcoming the effects of a natural disaster

• Discuss some of the major disasters around the World and lessons learned from those disaster events

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Production Sharing Contracts (PSC) Master Class, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 2011

NEOEDGE is bringing to you another of our premier course “Production Sharing Contracts (PSC) Master Class” to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 26 to 29 September 2011.

Effective training in today's fast developing petroleum market is essential if relevant executives in both the public and private sectors are to create and implement the optimum regulatory and commercial environment for revenue and profit maximisation. Nowhere is this more important than in the development and negotiation of Production Sharing Contracts (PSCs), a critical part of global petroleum exploration, production and commercialization.

The purpose of a PSC is to facilitate the finding and commercialisation of deposits of oil and gas. However, production sharing is not the only regime used for that purpose, nor, within a production sharing regime, is the PSC the only instrument used; and, as with all such regimes, production sharing, and each individual PSC, exists within a historical, geopolitical and legal framework, and a global market, that informs its principles and its detailed implementation. It is imperative for relevant executives in both government and private sectors to understand the ever-changing impact of these forces on the PSC, and the PSC's position and role among the many key factors needed for successful oil and gas commercialisation.

About your World-Class Trainer:

David Moroney is a partner in the London office of Fulbright & Jaworski International LLP, one of the world's leading energy law firms. He has over 40 years experience in the structuring, negotiation and documentation of upstream and downstream oil and gas, electricity and mining projects and investments, and related acquisitions, disposals, financings, sales and other transactions, and of the legislative, regulatory and investment regimes and structures required for them, acting for both governments and investors.

This interactive workshop will examine:

-          PSCs in a global context

-          The impact on the PSC of the physical, financial and political basics of the oil and gas industry

o        The chemistry and geology involved in the formation, migration and trapping of oil and gas

o    The politics, science and operations involved in the finding, recovering, transporting and commercialization

o        The political, legal and commercial mechanisms used to facilitate commercialisation

o        Law and regulation

o        Industry joint venture, operating, field work, transportation and sales arrangements

o        Project structuring and financing

-       The role of production sharing in the right to explore and produce, its advantages and disadvantages

-   A comparison of PSC with other upstream titles, including licences and risk service (in Iraq and elsewhere)

-  Unitisation and its alternatives, and the peculiar problems of different fiscal, regulatory and administrative regimes

-    The relationship of the PSC to industry exploration, development, production, transportation and sales arrangements, and downstream investments

-       Construction and field service contracts – who really bears the risk of a wild well?

-    Crude oil and natural gas sales and transportation agreements (LNG and pipelines, domestic and cross border)

-          The ever-widening reach of anti-corruption law

-          The financing of commercialization

-          Resource rent and petroleum economics

-          The PSC as an administrative tool and an investment agreement

-          Stability, nationalization and dispute resolution

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Mastering International Oil & Gas Accounting, Singapore, September 2011

The commercial and operational practices of the oil and gas industry pose unique challenges to accountants who need to operate under multiple reporting frameworks with conflicting accounting methods and with unique contractual arrangements such as production sharing contracts and joint venture arrangements.

NEOEDGE is bringing to you another of our premier course “Mastering International Oil & Gas Accounting” to be held in Singapore from 12 to 15 September 2011.

This four-day course focuses on the accounting issues currently faced by the upstream oil and gas industry. It considers the accounting and financial reporting implications of all the main transactions undertaken in the upstream business, including cost allocation and capitalisation, revenue allocation and the accounting issues faced by joint venture operations and operators of concessions and PSC’s. The course considers both internal accounting issues and financial reporting under US GAAP and IFRS frameworks.

Led by a World-class Oil & Gas Accounting Expert & Trainer

Alan Mayo, Director, Maltway Ltd, UK

• Thirty years of successful professional experience in the energy,

accounting, financial and performance management sector

• Co-founded the client training business of PwC London

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