Wood Mackenzie will participate at African Energy Week 2025: Invest in African Energies with a senior delegation, offering strategic insights on Africa’s upstream investment landscape
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, June 12, 2025/APO Group/ --
Energy research and consultancy firm Wood Mackenzie will participate in the African Energy Week (AEW) 2025: Invest in African Energies conference, with a senior delegation comprising Mansur Mohammed, Head of New Business Development, Africa; Gavin Thompson, Vice Chairman, EMEA; David Parkinson, Head of Exploration; and Ian Thom, Research Director, Upstream. The team will speak across multiple sessions, contributing data-led insights and strategic analysis on upstream investment, exploration trends and Africa’s energy transition planning.
Wood Mackenzie Joins African Energy Week (AEW) 2025 with Senior Delegation, Driving Investment and Insight Across Africa’s Energy Sector
With over five decades of experience, Wood Mackenzie has become a central player in global energy markets. In Africa, the firm’s work has been particularly impactful in supporting the development of long-term energy planning and project structuring. Its collaboration with national governments and state-owned oil companies has helped shape policy frameworks, evaluate exploration potential and guide infrastructure development.
One of the firm’s most notable recent contributions has been its support to the Republic of Congo in developing the country’s first Gas Master Plan, in partnership with the Ministry of Hydrocarbons. The plan outlines strategies for monetizing gas resources, expanding domestic access and establishing export mechanisms that will contribute to economic diversification. In line with this work, Wood Mackenzie has provided analysis for key projects such as the Marine XII LNG development, which recently delivered its first cargo and is progressing toward expansion with a second 3.5 billion-cubic-meter-per-year facility.
In the broader upstream sector, Wood Mackenzie tracks and forecasts capital investment trends across the continent. The firm’s research highlights a stabilization of upstream spending around $40 billion annually, with particular emphasis on gas and LNG-led growth. Countries such as Namibia and Mozambique are attracting heightened interest from international investors, while established producers including Angola and Nigeria continue to recalibrate their upstream portfolios in response to global energy dynamics. Wood Mackenzie’s data and modelling are often used by governments and private operators alike to assess fiscal terms, licensing strategy and project economics.
The firm is also playing a leading role in contextualizing Africa’s energy transition. According to its long-term energy outlooks, Africa is expected to see electricity demand double by 2050. While renewables will form an increasing share of generation, Wood Mackenzie maintains that oil and gas will remain vital to meeting the continent’s industrial and energy access needs. The firm projects that Africa will account for just 3–6% of global emissions by mid-century, underscoring the argument that continued hydrocarbon development can coexist with climate responsibility.
“Wood Mackenzie brings the rigorous data and applied insight necessary to unlock Africa’s energy potential. At AEW 2025, their contributions will help shape a narrative that highlights investment opportunity, energy security and the responsible pursuit of development across the continent,” states NJ Ayuk, Executive Chairman of the African Energy Chamber.
The delegation’s participation at AEW 2025: Invest in African Energies comes at a time when African states are intensifying their focus on exploration licensing rounds, domestic gas utilization and large-scale LNG developments. With deep experience in asset valuation, fiscal benchmarking and upstream project modelling, Wood Mackenzie remains a trusted partner to investors, ministries and NOCs seeking to maximize returns and mitigate risk across the continent.
AEW: Invest in African Energies is the platform of choice for project operators, financiers, technology providers and government, and has emerged as the official place to sign deals in African energy. Visit www.AECWeek.com for more information about this exciting event.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of African Energy Chamber.
I think Yemen is over reacting unless they have something dirty to hide which obviously they do because they wouldn't just arrest people like that, Somaliland has the right to arrest these people on suspecion of smuggling people, what is Yemen's case? Because Somaliland arrested our people they can arrest anyone for it? Thats ridiculous and uncivilized, instead what Yemen should do was go to Somaliland and work with the authority to put an end to this smuggling if the cause is not true they should prove it.
Yemen is just high on qat.
Yemen Should suddenly release the Somaliland Citizens, who are now in their custods, there is no piracy threat in Somaliland water and Yemenies must bear the mind the long commercial historic relation between the two sides
I know what your saying Yusif, the Yemenis help us as much as they can in terms of offering refuge to the somalis. I also watch that epsoide of Good Sheikh and it was heart breaking. It showed the fact that they are struggling as much as the somalis that are risking there lives are. But listen walal who ever is responsible for this smuggling and making profit form it needs to be arrested. whether form Somaliland or Yeman. The fact that Yeman are capturing Somalilanders simply as tool in a tick for tac is ridiculous and uncivilized. The goverments should be working together and not against each other.
you idiot somalia is probably ten times more high on qat…
Never forget what the Yemenis do for Somalis. When all our arab brothers reject and deny us entry Yemen the poorest Arab nation in the gulf allows us entry and they dont bother us with id cards or anything. My proof watch the good sheikh by aljaazera on youtube and tell me that Somalis would do the same. We are so busy looking at others mistakes we forget to analyze our own. As Somalis we are to blame for everything that has happened to us. Allah only gives you what you deserve so we deserve everything we are getting now. We need to repent to Allah and Allah only. We need to see all Somalis as Muslim no tribal bull****. Talk is cheap and actions are louder than words
First of all you need to relax and state your view without getting too emotional. As for Qat consumption everyone knows Yemen consumes more khat than Somalia even their parliament takes few hour khat break.
And Yemen is not a Gulf State.
well we somalis still chew more than the yemenis, in fact the somaliland, puntland governments(if they can be called that at all) also have few hours qat breaks, this true our so called leaders are drug addicts alll of them south to north, in owdal saylac the the government buildings in the city are closed down from 12am to 15am everyday the same thing happens in all somali regional capitals all over the country, our nation is the highest nation in the world when it comes to drugs