Top investors, industry leaders to focus on fresh market insights at Investing in Nigeria’s Gas Future event

The Countdown is on for the Inaugural Nigerian Gas Association (NGA) Financial Forum scheduled for October 17, 2017 at the Grand Ball Room, Eko Hotels and Suites Lagos Nigeria. The Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Dr. Maikanti Baru is the guest of honour and will declare the financial forum open.

The theme for the 2017 edition, “Investing in Nigeria’s Gas Future”, embodies the essence of the association objective and focus.

“In Nigeria today, many new projects are being formulated, most of which do not take off because of the difficulties of securing sufficient financing. Thus, project sponsors are being forced to design more flexible and innovative financing packages involving a range of partners from both the public and private sectors”, Dada Thomas, President of the association said.

The forum will bring together speakers whose knowledge, expertise and extensive experience, will provide guidance and know how to participants, to enable them confidently engage in investment activities as well as to evaluate the outlook for the energy industry, and individual companies responses to the funding and investment gap, including potentials for the sector.

The intent is also to enhance investor confidence and trust in the oil and gas, power, pipeline, infrastructure and construction investment process and different types of investments and at various levels of the business life-cycle.

The financial forum will be a full day powerful, interactive and opportunity event that will seek to create a mind-set regarding investing and partnering in the gas business sector. It will take the format of a series of presentations and panel discussion.

The event will culminate with an opportunity for attendees to participate in developing a network and alliance of Nigeria security analysts, portfolio managers, rating agencies, insurance, risk managers and bankers with chief financial officers, treasurers and investor relations executives of natural gas distribution, transmission, diversified, marketing/gathering and combination gas/electric companies.

Confirmed and expected speakers include; Bayo Ojulari, Managing Director, Shell Petroleum Development Company(SNEPCo); Chikezie Nwosu, Deputy Managing Director, Addax Petroleum Development Company; Oscar Onyeama, Chief Executive, The Nigerian Stock Exchange; Oye Hassan-Odukale, Group Managing Director, Leadway Assurance Limited; Herbert Wigwe, Group Managing Director, Access Bank Plc; Andrew Alli, Managing Director, Africa Finance Corporation(AFC) amongst others.

The Nigerian Gas Association (NGA) is the apex organisation representing the varied and numerous stakeholders in the gas sector within the Nigerian oil and gas industry. The Association’s membership consists of a variety of international and indigenous companies as corporate members and individual members across the various sub-sectors and disciplines that make up the vast gas-value chain, starting from gas exploration and production companies (Upstream), to gas processing and transportation companies (Mid-stream), and including the various end consumers ranging from power generation companies (Gencos), Gas-Based Industries (Fertiliser, Methanol, Petrochemical, etc.), and Industrial and Commercial Consumers (Mini/Micro LNG, CNG/LPG, etc.).