Amidst urgent world vitality disaster, provides deficit, and transport disruptions, occasioned by blockades at the Strait of Hormuz, worldwide vitality leaders, diplomats, African enterprise leaders, and stakeholders drawn from each the private and non-private sector are set to focus on a roadmap for Africa’s vitality safety dynamics at the 10th Africa Energy Summit, holding in Nigeria’s oil and fuel capital, Port Harcourt, Rivers State from on the twenty sixth to twenty eighth, November,2026.
With the theme:”Scaling Innovative Industrial Capacity for Africa’s Energy Security”, the 10th Africa Energy Summit is being powered by the Solewant Energy Training Institute (SETI), a subsidiary of Solewant Group of Companies, a participant within the vitality ecosystem.
With the core goal of connecting coverage, capital, trade, enterprise, expertise and data in ways in which translate into measurable alternatives for Africa’s industrial capability and vitality safety, the convention would deliver collectively a few of Africa’s prime leaders, brightest minds, vitality trade captains, high-level diplomats, professionals
Including Nigeria’s Secretary to the Government of the Federation,SGF, Senator George Akume, Nigeria’s Minister of State for Petroleum (Oil), Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, Namibia’s Minister of Mines, Energy & Industry, Hon Modestus Amutse, former Nigerian Ambassador to Thailand with concurrent accreditation to the United Nations Economic & Social Commission for Asia & the Pacific,(UNESCAP), Ambassador Oma Djebah, First Bank of Nigeria CEO/Managing director, Mr Olusegun Alebiosu, former Secretary General of Africa Petroleum Producers Organization(APPO),and present World Energy Council’s Chair for Africa, Dr Omar Farouk Ibrahim, Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development & Monitoring Board(NCDMB), Engr Felix Omatsola Ogbe, the High Commissioner of Namibia to Nigeria, Ambassador Walde Ndevashiya, prime diplomats, worldwide trade leaders from Kenya, Ghana, amongst others.
Senator George Akume as Secretary to the Government of the Federation,SGF, is predicted to ship the keynote handle to set the tone for deliberations whereas the Honorable Minister of State for Petroleum (Oil), Senator Heineken Lokpobiri is predicted to current a keynote speech showcasing Nigeria as a significant key participant in all the world vitality combine.
The Executive Secretary, Nigeria Content Development and Monitoring Board(NCDMB), Engr Felix Ogbe would ship a keynote handle as a number one regulator within the trade in Nigeria whereas Engr Wole Ogunsanya, Chairman, Petroleum Technology Association of Nigeria(PETAN), and the present chair, World Energy Council for Africa, Dr Omar Farouk Ibrahim would ship addresses at the summit on capability fashions for advancing vitality safety in Africa. On his half, the Namibia’s Energy Minister, Honourable Modestus Amutse, is predicted to share his nation’s vitality experiences and alternatives at the Summit whereas Ambassador Oma Djebah, former Nigeria’s Ambassador to Thailand with concurrent accreditation to the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), will present insights on diplomacy, worldwide cooperation, B-to-B, C-to-C, and P-to-P funding partnerships throughout worldwide jurisdictions.
The High Commissioner of Namibia, Ambassador Walden Ndevashiya would via gentle on the Namibian expertise in shaping Africa’s vitality capability and safety. Other prime diplomats and worldwide trade leaders from varied nations in Africa, together with Kenya and Ghana will ship addresses on vitality safety ecosystem in Africa.
These leaders are converging in Port Harcourt at the three-day high-level Africa ‘s energy security Summit with the overarching goal of leading the conversation on strengthening indigenous partnership and scaling-up capacity across the oil and gas, power, renewable energy and allied industrial value chains, improving MSME’s readiness for finance, procurement, contracting and market entry, connecting viable enterprises and initiatives with banks, DFIs, traders,IOCs/NOCs, OEMs and different potential companions.
Other aims embody: creating pathways for analysis, prototypes and graduate innovation to progress in the direction of funding, pilots, licensing, partnerships and market deployment, advancing expertise switch, cross-border funding and worldwide financial cooperation; and making a structured post-summit mechanism for monitoring severe finance, procurement, innovation and partnership alternatives. The yearly vitality Summit in Port Harcourt is considered one of Africa’s most strategic and worthwhile gatherings of coverage leaders, vitality captains, stakeholders, and trade gamers.
According to the conveners, the 10th version of the Africa Energy Summit, which leverages the success of its ninth version, is structured as a continuum moderately than a two -day sequence of speeches. It would begin earlier than the formal summit with enterprise, innovation, and progresses via two targeted summit days, culminating in govt relationship -building and recognition actions, and whereas persevering with via publish -summit offers and alternative monitoring.
According to the conveners, the programme pillars embody: enterprise and indigenous trade scale -up, finance, funding and deal facilitation, analysis, innovation and commercialisation, expertise and worldwide cooperation, exhibition, markets entry and place-based funding and govt networking and post-summit conversion.
The summit is designed to be a cross-sector viewers dialog comprising senior authorities and regulatory officers;IOCs and NOCs; indigenous vitality service firms;PETAN members and different trade associations;banks, DFIs, traders and specialists/trade-finance establishments;OEMs and expertise suppliers;universities, researchers and innovators;MSME and rising professionals; diplomatic missions and worldwide commerce/funding our bodies; state and native authorities;exhibitors, sponsors and strategic enterprise leaders.
Beyond planery and panel classes, the summit is predicted to function as an energetic engagement atmosphere whereas participation by organizations might be via sponsorship, exhibition, delegate participation, talking and technical contributions, strategic partnership,MSME sponsorship, funding and finance engagement or participation within the Summit’s matchmaking and innovation -commercialisation actions. Speakers and contributors are anticipated to deliver the depth of their cumulative experience and experiences to bear on the dialog.
The conveners preserve that the 10th vitality summit is designed to transfer past dialogue in the direction of sensible and measurable outcomes.
Through it mixture of enterprise preparation, coverage and trade engagement/finance conversations, innovation commercialisation, exhibition and structured matchmaking,the summit is projected to generate pathways for funding, markets entry, partnerships and sustained post-summit engagements. In addition, the outcomes are anticipated to assist advance Africa’s vitality safety, sustainable vitality provides, and effectivity whereas accelerating relevant polices and deepening human capacities in alignment with 55 African Union member states’ agenda.
