Global Energy Leaders: Can Africa Become the World's Next Strategic Hydrocarbon Growth Hub?

12 Oct 2026
Hall 1A/1B
Energy Additions Forum
Panel Discussion:

Ministers, data providers and global LNG players assess what it will take to turn Africa's resource potential and renewed investor interest into final investment decisions and production.
Discussion topics:
ā— Competing for capital: the fiscal and licensing reforms that move the needle, including Gabon's 2026 offshore round and new Gas Code
ā— Where the next discoveries lie: the frontier basins drawing most interest and the role of data in de-risking them
ā— African LNG in a reshaped market: who is buying, how contracts are changing, and what it takes to reach FID
ā— Gas for Africa as well as for export: balancing LNG with gas-to-power and domestic industrialisation
Chairperson
Georja Calvin Smith
Georja Calvin Smith, Anchor & Executive Editor, Eye on Africa - FRANCE 24
Speakers
Clotair Kondja
Clotair Kondja, Minister of Oil and Gas - Gabon
David Hajovsky
David Hajovsky, Executive Vice President, Multi-Client - TGS
Andrew Barry
Andrew Barry, Vice President, Global LNG Marketing and Chairman - ExxonMobil LNG Market Development
Mike Sangster
Mike Sangster, Senior VP, Africa - TotalEnergies