INTRODUCTION

On the 28th of February, 2024 the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and Minister of Petroleum Resources, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu GCFR signed three Policy Directives to guide the practice of contract, fiscal and local content in the Nigerian Energy Industry.

Six months after its Assent, the policy has affected the Industry both positively and negatively.

This Retreat of Energy Lawyers would focus on extensively analyzing the effects of these policies to the Indus and proffering way forward.

Theme: Analysing the Effects of the Presidential Policy Directives on the Nigerian Energy Industry.

Event Schedule

Thursday 24th of October, 2024  

Day 1

04:00pm – 07:00pm

Delegates Arrival and Registration


07:00pm – 09:00pm

Dinner

Friday, 25th of October, 2024.
Day 2

09:00am – 11:00am
1st Session.

  • Opening address – Executive Secretary

Topic:
The Effect of the Presidential Policy Directives on the Reduction of the Petroleum Sector Contracting Costs and Timelines on PSC and JOA

Speakers:

  • Mofesomo Tayo-Oyetibo SAN (Partner, Tayo Oyetibo LP)
  • Ademola Fashiku (Senior Legal Counsel E & P Commercial, Seplat Energy)
  • Oluwadare Agbelese (Group Head, Legal and Supply Chain Management, Waltersmith)

11:00am – 11:30am
 Tea Break

11:30am – 01:30pm
2nd Session

Topic:
The Presidential Directive on Nigerian Local Content Compliance and its Effect in the Energy Industry

Speakers:

  • Dr. David Editang (Executive Director, Business Development and  Nigerian Content, Dasoniel Energy Services Limited).
  • Dr. Wisdom Enang.(Energy Consultant)
  • Okezi Okah-Avae ( General Counsel, Tetracore Energy Group)

01:30pm – 02:30pm
3rd Session

Topic: The Fiscal Presidential Policy: It’s Effect on the Administration of Tax in the Nigerian Energy Industry

Speakers:

  • Sesan Suleiman (Partner, Dispute Resolution & Tax Practice Groups, Templars).
  • Folashade Oluyadi (Partner, Olaniwun Ajayi LP)

03:00pm – 04:00pm
Lunch  and closing ceremony.

Registration fees

DESCRIPTION

REGISTRATION (LEN MEMBERS) ₦

REGISTRATION (NON LEN MEMBERS) ₦

21st September – 23rd October 2024

₦400,000

₦500,000

Register

All payment should be made to the following account;

  • Account name: Lawyers in Oil and Gas Network
  • Account Number: 0425356943
  • Bank: GTB

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Tel: 08065201815
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Speakers

Sesan Suleiman

Sesan Sulaiman is a Partner in the Dispute Resolution and Tax practice groups. Sesan is a multi-sectorial expert with superior understanding of commercial and fiscal issues in Nigeria especially in the oil and gas industry. She has in-depth experience in direct and indirect taxation, international taxation, tax planning and structuring for oil and gas financing, upstream and midstream development transactions, free trade zone operations, tax incentives and concessions, market entry considerations, negotiations and settlements with tax authorities, international tax dispute resolution, international arbitration, and related compliance guidance.
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Dr. David Editang

David Editang has over 20 years of work experience spanning the Upstream, Midstream and Downstream sectors respectively.
His capabilities traverse diverse spectrums including but not limited to Business Development, Consultancy, Corporate Strategy Local Content, Regulatory Compliance and Stakeholder management. He graduated from the University of Calabar with a B.Sc. in Geology, Charisma University in Montana, USA, with an MBA in Business Management, and Prowess University in Delaware, USA, with a PhD in Business Management.
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Dr. Wisdom Enang

Engr. (Dr.) Wisdom Enang is a quintessential leader, technocrat and astute scholar. He obtained his Undergraduate, Masters and Doctorate degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Bath, a leading institution in engineering, in the UK.

He currently serves as an Energy Consultant and a Senior Analyst, to a number of International Energy Companies, and Energy Media Outlets. He also serves as an adjunct Professor of Energy Engineering with the University of North Dakota USA. Prior to this, Dr. Enang oversaw the operations and maintenance of 24 shallow water oil and gas assets in Nigeria.
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Mofesomo Tayo-Oyetibo SAN

Mofesomo Tayo-Oyetibo is a Partner at the leading Nigerian law firm of Tayo Oyetibo LP, where he heads the Firm’s Arbitration and Commercial Litigation practice. He is a graduate of the University of Leeds and holds a Masters’ Degree in Commercial Law from the University of Bristol. Mofesomo is a leading expert in commercial disputes resolution, and he has invaluable experience in the arbitration and litigation of a wide range of domestic and international disputes covering the areas of banking, commercial crime, contracts, corporate insolvency, marine and general insurance, securities, shipping and international trade and oil and gas. His work also includes providing advisory services to clients on the legal aspects of their entry into the Nigerian market or ongoing operations in the country. He has provided expert evidence on Nigerian law matters in foreign proceedings.
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Okezi Okah-Avae

Okezi has practiced as a general legal and regulatory compliance adviser in the Oil & Gas and Energy Sectors for more than twelve (12) years. His work experience has also covered infrastructure and project finance, corporate restructuring, investment banking, private equity, mergers & acquisition. He has secured both Bachelors of Law (LL.B) from the University of Lagos in 2006 and a Master’s Degree in Oil & Gas Law from the University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom in 2010.
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Oluwadare Agbelese

Group Head, Legal and Supply Chain Management
Oluwadare is a legal practitioner with 15-years’ post-call professional experience. He has worked with the energy and corporate commercial teams of two of Nigeria’s leading law firms as well as in the legal departments of indigenous and independent exploration and production companies. His specialisations include energy advisory, corporate and commercial advisory (including company sceretarial, joint-venture structuring and mergers and acquisitions), and infrastructure-related advisory.
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Folashade Oluyadi

Folashade is currently a partner in the law firm of Olaniwun Ajayi LP, one of the foremost commercial law firms in Nigeria. She graduated from Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife and top of her class. She proceeded to the University of Cambridge for her masters and became a Pegasus Scholar of the Inner Temple Inn of the Court of England. She joined Olaniwun Ajayi LP in 2007 and having risen through the ranks in her career at the firm, working across different business units such as dispute resolution, banking and finance and mergers & acquisitions and private equity, she is now a partner in the oil & gas practice unit of the firm.
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Ademola Fashiku

Ademola (Senior Legal Counsel E & P Commercial ) is a legal practitioner with 17 years of post-call experience, specialising in Corporate and Commercial Law. Over the past 13 years at Seplat Energy Plc. (“Seplat”), he has built extensive expertise across Nigeria’s Oil & Gas industry, particularly in Upstream and Midstream operations, Gas & Power commercialisation, and recently in Energy Transition.

Before joining Seplat, Ademola worked as an Associate at Udo Udoma & Belo – Osagie (“UUBO”), where he specialised in Corporate and Commercial Law and General Corporate Advisory across several practice areas including Telecommunications, Oil & Gas, Immigration and Labour & Employment Law. He later held a key role at Honeywell Group Limited, supporting commercial and statutory compliance efforts across the FMCG, Real Estate and Oil & Gas businesses of the Honeywell Group.
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