IENE’s 2nd SE Europe Regional Upstream Workshop on “Hydrocarbon Exploration
and Production in the Adriatic, the Black Sea and the East Mediterranean” will
take place in Athens, on Thursday, October 31st and Firday, November 1st, 2013,
and will be held under the auspices of Greece’s Ministry of Environment, Energy
& Climate Change, which is in charge of the country’s hydrocarbon sector).
As significant developments in hydrocarbon exploration in the countries of the
area are unfolding at an increasingly fast pace, this IENE Workshop will bring
together experts, executives and senior government officials involved in
exploration and production activities of the region in order to discuss and
analyze latest prospects and business opportunities.
The Workshop will refer to the latest geological, geophysical and seismic
research, as well as on the relevant legal and financial framework, in the
countries of the area, and will cover specific regions in the Black Sea, the
Eastern part of the Mediterranean basin and the Adriatic Sea. A diverse country
group is proposed which includes Italy, Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, Greece,
Turkey, Israel, Cyprus, Bulgaria and Romania.
Prof. John Maniatis, Greece’s Minister of Environment, Energy & Climate
Change, will address the Workshop, following opening remarks by Mr. Costis
Stambolis, Executive Director of IENE. Prof. John Mazis, Professor of Economic
Geography- Geopolitics of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens,
Greece will refer to the geopolitical framework of the area as well as to the
geopolitical implications of the hydrocarbon explorations. Mr. Gus
Papamichalopoulos, Secretary General of IENE and Partner of Kyriakides
Georgopoulos Law Firm (KG Law Firm), will focus on the legislative framework of
the sector’s activities in the countries of the region.
In the 2nd session, which will
focus on the findings and prospects of hydrocarbon exploration and production
in the Black Sea and the Adriatic, the speakers will include Dr. Hans Hutta
(General Director, International Center for Petroleum & Industrial
Management, ICM, Vienna, Austria), Mr. Peter Shinner (Country Manager,
Petroceltic, Italy) and Mr. Ilia Gjermani (Specialist, Regulatory &
Management, Petroleum Sector, Ministry of Economy, Trade & Energy, Tirana,
Albania).
The third session will focus
on the developments in the Black Sea Region and Greece. Prof. Sofia Stamataki,
(Mining Engineering, School of Mining & Metallurgical Engineering, National
Technical University of Athens, Greece), the newly appointed President of the
Hellenic Hydrocarbons Managements Company S.A., Prof. Radu Dudau (Executive
Director, Romania Energy Center - ROEC, Bucharest, Romania), Mr. Laurentiou
Pachiu (Head of Pachiu and Associates, Bucharest, Romania) and Dr. Spyros
Bellas, (General Secretariat for Energy & Climate Change, Petroleum Policy
Directorate, Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change, Athens,
Greece) will contribute with presentations.
The session’s second part will concentrate on the developments and
prospects of hydrocarbon exploration and production in Greece. The speakers in
the this part of the session will include some of the basic players of Greece’s
hydrocarbon sector, namely, Mr. Mathios Rigas, CEO of Energean Oil & Gas
S.A., the company that operates Greece’s only oil field at Prinos, Mr. Hank
David, the new Business Development Manager of Energean Oil & Gas S.A, Dr.
Constantinos Nicolaou, CEO of Kanergy Ltd and Member of IENE’s Board of
Directors, and Dr. Ioannis Grigoriou (Mining Engineer and Geophysicist,
Director, Hydrocarbons Research & Production, HELPE S.A., Athens, Greece).
The East Mediterranean
(Cyprus, Israel, Turkey, Greece) will be examined during the 4th session of the
Workshop, which will take place on November 1st. Speakers will include: Ms.
Teresa Fokianou (CEO, Flow Energy & Environmental Operations SA, Athens,
Greece), Dr. Solon Kassinis, Chairman of Kassinis International Consulting
Company, (Nicosia, Cyprus) and former executive Vice Chairman of the Cyprus
National Hydrocarbons Company (CNHC- KRETYK), Dr. Eitan Aizenberg, Exploration
Manager, Ratio Oil Exploration (Tel-Aviv, Israel ), Mr. Mehmet Sünnetçioğlu,
Expert Engineer, TPAO (Ankara, Turkey), Mr. Barış Kalkavan, Counsellor at the
Embassy of Turkey in Athens and Dr. Sotiris Kapotas, (President and CEO, Stream
Oil and Gas Ltd, Albania), whereas a representative of the Hellenic Ministry of
Foreign Affairs has been invited. A round table discussion with the
participation of the all the speakers of the Workshop will follow.
The detailed programme of tis IENE Workshop is available on the Institute’s
website (
www.iene.gr
). The Workshop’s lead sponsor is the Energean Oil and Gas Company while
Romania’s Grup Servicii Petroliere SA is the Workshop’s supporter. Media
partners include Energia.gr and SEENews.