Africa Oil Week partners with AFREC

The main has announced a partnership of global importance with the African Union (AU) represented by its specialized energy agency, the African Energy Commission (AFREC).

The partnership is a further endorsement of Africa Oil Week (AOW) as a global energy platform and forum to stimulate conversations in Africa’s energy and energy exploration sector.

As mandated by the African head of state, AFREC’s responsibility is to develop the African energy sector by coordinating, harmonizing, protecting, conserving, developing, and promoting the rational exploitation, commercialization and integration of energy resources for all member states of the AU. AFREC is also entrusted with the obligation to manage the continental energy database, the African Energy Information System (AEIS) and ensure that evidence-based policies and regulations are developed in response to the challenges facing the development of the energy sector. African.

As part of the Africa Oil Week partnership, AFREC will facilitate a ministerial dialogue to help promote Africa’s energy development in line with the commission’s energy transition agenda. This program identifies the strategies needed for Africa to achieve a just energy transition in line with the AU Agenda 2063, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement.

“Access to affordable clean energy for Africa can be achieved by finding policy tools that balance accessibility, reliability, affordability and low carbon impact,” says AFREC Executive Director Rashid Ali Abdallah. ”We are pleased to work with AOW to facilitate dialogue with all energy players and we look forward to important conversations,” he underlined.

“For more than 25 years, AOW has brought together governments, oil companies, investors, the exploration community and service providers. So this partnership is a big step forward for Africa Oil Week,” says AOW’s Paul Sinclair. “Working with AFREC will unlock many possibilities to shape a better future for Africa through impactful energy commitments, in turn helping to realize our vision of enhancing Africa’s energy development,” he further emphasized.

Africa Oil Week connects more than 50 ministers and government leaders, hundreds of featured speakers and more than 2,000 high-level delegates for five days of elite conferences, exhibitions and networking platforms. This year, the AOW event takes place from October 3 to 7 in Cape Town, at the Cape Town International Convention Center.

Africa Oil Week’s sister event, Green Energy Africa Summit (GEA Summit) takes place at the same time, in the same location. The aligned conferences come as Africa faces a redemptive opportunity to use its energy resources to fuel economic growth, improve service delivery and lift millions of citizens out of poverty.