General Themes

• Petroleum Systems and Play Understanding
• Unexplored plays from Morocco to Nigeria
• New ideas and plays versus rejuvenating old plays
• Stratigraphic traps - dream or reality?
• Deep-water depositional systems; advances in understanding and prediction of reservoir presence and quality
• Analogues of major oil and gas discoveries
• Successes on the conjugate margin: similarities and differences
• Oil versus gas production, what we have learned from the petroleum systems along the margin
• Machine Learning and semi-automatic seismic and well log interpretation – modern tools and techniques to help de-risk the exploration play
• Acquisition and Drilling
• Acquisition strategies to reduce timelines
• Seismic acquisition in heavily fished international fishing zones
• Drilling in areas of developing hydrocarbon industry
• Commercial
• Fiscal terms considerations
• Block size definition
• Phase duration vs. work commitments case studies
• Constraints on effective and efficient exploration in frontier areas

Regional 

• MSGBC
• Development update on major gas and oil discoveries in Mauritania and Senegal
• Operational complexities and challenges
• Cross-border collaboration case studies
• Lessons learned from dry wells
• Exploration activity in under-explored countries/basins (Guinea Bissau, AGC, Guinea Conakry, Sierra Leone, Liberia)
• Local content case studies
• Licence Round organization:
• Variation between countries
• What is the best strategy to attract & provide a uniform access to data / equal chance at block captures?
• Gulf of Guinea
• Exploration successes and failures (lessons learned and pitfalls)
• Updates on major discoveries (Jubilee, Afina, Baobab, TEN, San Kofa, Nyankom. Pecan)
• Exploration to Production Field case studies
• Field development updates and challenges
• New ideas and concepts from onshore to UDO
• Unexplored plays/basins potential
• Licence Round organization:
• Variation between countries
• What is the best strategy to attract & provide a uniform access to data / equal chance at block captures?