Energy Intelligence - Oil & Money 2010

Ministerial Forum and Corporate Keynote Speeches: Top energy ministers and corporate leaders will offer their perspectives on how they are confronting today's geopolitical and business challenges.
NOC-IOC Forum: Future Competition, Cooperation and Alliances: Relations between state firms and private investors remain in flux. International oil companies are in a transition toward alliances with national oil firms and, at the same time, recent upstream arrangements are calling into question the futureviability of the established productionsharing model.
CEO Forum: Global Upstream Challenges: CEOs from the industry's major players will gather to discuss the challenges the industry faces in developing new upstream plays, managing the financial crisis and coping with market volatility.
The New Financial Landscape: The financial underpinnings of the energy business are shifting with new regulations and challenges to both accessing capital and deployingit effectively.
Deepwater Safety and Upstream Environmental Risks: The industry faces a host of new challenges in the aftermath of the Macondo spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

The Center of Economic Gravity Shifts to Asia:Implications for Energy: Asia's phenomenal energy demand growth and the growing Asia-Middle East nexus require a reappraisal of the future direction of the energy business.
Iraq's New Oil Investment Policy: A Game Changer?: Iraq plans to increase production to 12 million b/d. Are these ambitious goals realistic, and, if not, what can be expected? How might Opec react? What does this volume growth mean for the companies involved and the region?
Leadership Forum: The Global Implications of Shale Gas: Will shale gas supply as much as half the natural gas production in North America by 2020? How will international gas markets be affected?
Global Oil Market Outlook: Where are oil prices headed and what is driving them?
Changing Regional Natural Gas Markets and New Pricing Practices: The global natural gas business is facing price pressures, big supply shifts and security of supply issues that are impacting long-term pricing and trade.
The Geopolitics of Energy: This session will cover the broad range of geopolitical and regional pressures shaping the energy business from Iran and the Middle East to Russia, China and Central Asia.