SOUND UP!! This is what the 9th Edition felt like - and that's exactly why you need to be in London for the 10th Edition of the Africa Energies Summit | Africa’s Premier Global Upstream Conference | 11th - 13th May 2027

Last month, we asked Ananya Modi, Managing Director of Rothschild & Co to list out where governments must focus if they want to win upstream investment.

In frontier exploration, the subsurface picture comes first, and Searcher has spent years building it across Africa.

This panel of operators, dealmakers and advisors tackled one of the industry's oldest questions - and the answers were, in classic World Energies Summit style, refreshingly candid.

Every upstream decision-maker needs to lock our Global Summits into their 2027 diary.

TOMORROW Frontier Upstream Insights LIVE!

Thank you to everyone who joined us in London this week, for the 4th World Energies Summit.

Standing room only for our Lunch with the Legends session today. And no wonder, as four upstream legends - Peter Dolan, Diederick Bax, Phil Loader and Brian Maxted - brought more than 170 years of combined exploration experience to the stage, sharing the lessons that shaped their careers.

Deals don't just get discussed at the World Energies Summit. They get signed.

This time tomorrow, the 4th World Energies Summit will be well under way.

Upstream Latest: what's on the table at the World Energies Summit?

Sintana Energy has built its name in Namibia's Orange Basin, holding interests across in a basin that has redrawn the global exploration map since 2022.

Only a handful of delegate places remain for this year's Summit, taking place in the heart of London 29 - 30 September.

Our Showcase Theatre gives delegates direct access to the governments, operators, investors and technology partners shaping outcomes, region by region - and few companies are positioned to speak to that breadth quite like SLB.

Bangladesh's Bay of Bengal is one of South Asia's most promising untapped offshore frontiers. With energy demand growing fast and import costs rising, unlocking new domestic gas reserves has become a genuine national priority - and a real opportunity for international operators.

The Americas is no longer a "watch this space" region for upstream investment - it's where some of the biggest headlines are being created.

Newfoundland and Labrador's energy story is entering a defining chapter - and the Hon. Lloyd Parrott, the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador's Minister of Energy and Mines, is at the centre.

Latin America's deepwater sector is entering a new chapter. Brazil's pre-salt Santos Basin continues to anchor the region's growth, with Petrobras committing over $100 billion to exploration and production through 2030, while Guyana and Suriname emerge as the industry's newest frontiers. Rio de Janeiro sits at the centre of that momentum.

LATEST EDITION OF THE World Energies Summit | The World’s Premier Global Upstream Conference | 29th - 30th September 2026 AGENDA is now available.

Across Africa, Shell's momentum right now is hard to miss - a bigger stake in Nigeria's deepwater Bonga field, a move into onshore Libya, and approval for ultra-deepwater drilling off South Africa in the Orange Basin.