Africa’s First International Petroleum Management Program to Kickoff in October

Dedicated to developing strong local skills and capacities across Africa’s energy value chain, the African Energy Chamber is collaborating with the Institute for Petroleum Development at the University of Austin, Texas, to bring its comprehensive international training program to Cape Town on October 14^th-25^th, 2019.

The International Petroleum Management Program (IPMP) is an industry reference and has been specially designed for leaders of international oil companies, national oil companies, services companies, law firms, and government agencies in addition to individuals with a background in engineering, economics, geology, finance, law, accounting, and corporate planning.

“The oil and gas industry is the backbone of most African economies and will continue to be for a long time. While we keep working with all players to unleash the full benefit of oil to Africans, training and developing executives is key as preparation prevents frustration. We have an obligation to develop African executives to be competitive with their international counterparts. This is a global industry. As the voice of the African energy sector, it is natural that we lead on this,” said Nj Ayuk, Executive Chairman at the Chamber and CEO of the Centurion Law Group. “The training program will offer a unique opportunity for African executives and dealmakers to receive training of high quality and international standard, which will ultimately benefit African exploration and production companies, governments and countries in building a robust hydrocarbons sector.”

Alumni of this program have had distinguished careers with ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, China National Offshore Oil Corp, Egyptian General Petroleum Corp, Nigerian National Petroleum Corp., Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, GAZPROM, PETROBRAS, PETRONAS, National Enterprise for Hydrocarbons (Mozambique), National Oil Corporation of Kenya, Anadarko among others.

“Given the exclusive opportunity of presenting this program on the African continent for the first time, it is all-natural that Centurion would be a legal partner of this initiative,” declared on her side Glenda Irvine-Smith, Director of Business Development & International Relations at the Centurion Law Group. “As a firm, we are committed to domestic capacity building and the training of the next generation of African lawyers and leaders. The IPMP is a unique opportunity offered to young African leaders and we are delighted to be part of it.”

Registered participants represent companies operating in Algeria, Angola Cameroon, Chad Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Senegal, South Sudan, Uganda, Ghana, Namibia, Gabon, Ghana, Libya, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, South Africa, and Sudan.