Billions at Play: The Future of African Energy and Doing Deals, Ayuk Nj
Автор: Ayuko Название: The Earl and the Fairy, Vol. 2 ISBN: 1421541696 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781421541693 Издательство: Viz Media Рейтинг: Цена: 7690.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: The second volume of a new series set in 19th Century Britain.
Africa's oil and gas industry is facing extraordinary circumstances. An ongoing energy transition and new efforts to decarbonize the world are weighing on oil demand. The shale revolution is exacerbating these pressures. And of course, the COVID-19 pandemic has wrought havoc on markets around the world, accelerating and intensifying existing trends.
External headwinds are forcing African petroleum producers to re-examine their strategies. Conventional petroleum resources here should be globally competitive, but growth has lagged because of conditions above the ground, not below. Restrictive fiscal regimes, inefficient and carbon-intensive production, and difficulties in doing business are preventing the industry from reaching its full potential. As companies delay projects and cut costs, planned capital expenditure in 2020-2021 has fallen from $90 billion pre-COVID-19, to $60 billion now. To remain competitive, African producers and governments must adapt. But how can they do it when the economic order is being remade?
The Road to Recovery addresses these challenges head-on, detailing all of the major challenges facing African oil and gas stakeholders, as well as workable solutions that will keep the industry on a strong and stable growth path. Again and again, our oil and gas sector has proven its resilience and adaptability. The world still needs oil and gas, and Africa still holds enormous untapped potential. The African Energy Chamber will remain a committed partner of choice for the industry as we advance into an uncertain future.
"I agree with the points made--and with Ayuk's case for the critical role that OPEC will play in the helping African oil products achieve a much-deserved voice in the petroleum industry." --OPEC Secretary General, H.E. Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo
Two decades of negotiating African oil and gas deals have given NJ Ayuk a grasp of the continent's energy landscape that few can match. Ayuk, American-educated, African energy lawyer serves up generous doses of that insight in his second book, Billions at Play: The Future of Africa Energy and Doing Deals.
Serving as a road map for the continent to do a better job of using its vast energy resources to improve its peoples' lives. Ayuk addresses how African countries can use their energy industries as spring boards for diversifying and growing their overall economies.
In addition, Ayuk shows how they can negotiate better deals with international energy companies and how the continent's countries can use marginal oil and gas fields to develop domestic energy industries that, once strong, will compete globally.
Questions posed and answered:
Why Africa's fledgling natural gas industry can become an international powerhouse,
How the continent can improve its notoriously unreliable, economy-sapping power industry,
Why American energy companies should stop curtailing their investments in Africa, and,
Why the continent's energy industry needs more women.
The book's underlying theme is that too often, natural resources create wealth for foreign investors and a select group of African elites while everyday people fail to benefit.
As for Africans needing to step up their energy-negotiations game, Ayuk notes that when he became an oil and gas lawyer years ago, "Africans were not part of any kind of deal-making structure: When negotiations involving foreign investors' oil and gas exploration, production, and revenue-sharing took place, Africans were not at the table--or even in the room."
Although African negotiators are at the table now, some are being out maneuvered. Ayuk lists steps that African negotiators can take to achieve oil and gas deals that please their clients, such as remembering that the best agreements benefit both sides. A mutually rewarding deal will reduce the chance that one side will become resentful and demand a renegotiation.
Africa has been an oil-market force for decades yet has lagged on natural-gas development. This needs to change. While more gas exports would boost the continent's economy, a gas-development boom would ease the continent's power shortages until renewables inevitably take over.
With so much gas potential, many energy experts see the continent as gas's new frontier. The power shortages that gas could help fix have been battering Africa's economy for decades, Ayuk laments. The main reason is that governments own most countries' utility assets, he contends. Governments that have separated power creation and distribution, and privatized it, are reducing their electricity deficits, he says. If adopted continent-wide, unbundling could go a long way toward solving the power crunch, he asserts.
Ayuk also makes a case for Africa's oil and gas industry hiring and promoting more women. His main argument is one that you hear reverberating across the business world: Why limit your company's potential by failing to consider half of your country's human capital? He underscores his argument by pointing to African women who have achieved petroleum-industry success, including becoming CEOs.
Although "Billions" deals with one of world's most complex industries, it is easy to digest because Ayuk writes in a straightforward, concise and zesty style. This makes the book a joy to read. I learned a lot about Africa's oil and gas industry in "Billions" --and its prospects for the future--and had fun while I was doing it.
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