The 2026 World Energies Summit agenda is built around six strategic themes that reflect the commercial, geopolitical and technological forces redefining the upstream sector.

The World Energies Summit covers the full global upstream picture. Six regional showcases. Six investment stories.

Some partnerships are about logos. Ours with SEAPEX is about reach, credibility and five decades of institutional knowledge.

The Africa Energies Summit returns to London on 11th - 13th May 2027, bringing together the leaders shaping the future of Africa’s upstream energy sector.

In this panel, we brought together leaders from across the geoscience, technology and engineering value chain - and the message was refreshingly consistent: the technology is ready. The question is whether the environment is.

Good exploration decisions rest on good intelligence, and few networks have been supplying it for as long as the London Oil Scouts.

One of the things I enjoy most about convening World Energies Summit | The World’s Premier Global Upstream Conference | 29th - 30th September 2026 is the opportunity to spend time with governments, regulators and upstream leaders from all over the world.

Right now, Travis Smithard - CEO of Rhino Resources - is one of the most closely watched figures in African upstream, as he leads one of the most significant exploration stories on the continent - the Capricornus discovery in Namibia's Orange Basin, which flowed light oil at rates that turned heads across the industry.

For a generation, the story of the Niger Delta was written by the supermajors. That story is changing, and indigenous companies like Nigdel United Oil Company are the reason.

The people who know the Africa Energies Summit best are the ones who return year after year.

This September, the World Energies Summit brings an extraordinary breadth of government participation to the heart of London, and the list keeps growing.

Some panels talk about diversity. This one made the business case - and backed it with numbers.

The industry has moved from energy transition to energy expansion. The question now is who moves fastest, and where.

In the run-up to the World Energies Summit | The World’s Premier Global Upstream Conference | 29th - 30th September 2026, our latest Regional Leader Thought Leadership report turns the spotlight on one of the most quietly compelling stories in global exploration.

Some panels talk about diversity. This one made the business case - and backed it with numbers.

Draw a line from France down to South Africa, and another from the Cape Verde Islands across to Pakistan. Much of the serious exploration and production interest inside that vast arc sits around a single London table.

Before a single well is drilled on the frontier, someone has to see what's down there - and 2026 has kept Searcher busy beneath the seabed.

Energy security used to sit somewhere in the appendix of a strategy deck. Not anymore.

There's no such thing as an upstream decision made in a vacuum. Every frontier basin sits inside a map of sanctions, shifting alliances, contested waters and fragile states.

The world finally understands that we need Africa. We need to all come together to be more productive for the whole world.