Ghanaian President to declare open African Oil and Gas Summit 2017

President Akufo Addo of Ghana will declare open  this year’s   African Oil and Gas Summit 2017  scheduled to take place in Accra, Ghana

The three day summit would be featuring talent leadership summit, digital talents solutions show case, Africa oil and gas human capital report and an award for innovation and change leadership

The Summit promised to be exciting especially as operators of oil and gas industry across Africa are expected to share  their ideas and challenges .

According to Emmanuel Emielu, director African Oil and Gas  council who spoke on behalf of  Felix  Amieyefori , chief executive officer of Energia, and chairman Summit Advisory council of the  company, said, as a company  t it believes so much in, not just local content, but local  content  that is exported beyond Nigeria to the rest of the world.

“We believe that ultimately, Nigeria Local content companies will be major exporters of the oil and gas skills and entrepreneurial capabilities to Africa and beyond, especially as the Big crew change affects hiring and retention worldwide.”

He said African Oil and Gas Talent summit is an annual event that was first launched in 2015, with the aim of seeking to fill a very important gap in the   oil and Gas industry ’s ecosystem.

“As you know there are many events in the industry and this region with their focus on oil industry, there are non that focus exclusively on the people that put technology, policy and finance to work. At best people issue are given a peripheral coverage”, he said

He said the African oil and gas Talent summit seeks to fills this gap, by creating a platform to put the people at the centre stage in the African Oil and Gas discourse, saying that this is particularly important given that three pillars of the industry- technology, finance and people- it is only people that Africa has control over, given that the other two are externally determined.

BakerHuge GE would deliver the keynote address for   summit which takes place from October 10  -13. Other participants at the event are Nigeria ’s  Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources and Tullow oil Ghana.