4th International Operations Excellence Seminar

October 13 & 14, 2010, Houston

Industry Leaders attended this 2 day program detailing how to achieve Operations Excellence.  Attendees and speakers represented over 55 operators, including Super-Majors, Independents, and National Oil companies from 24 countries.

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3rd International Operations Excellence Seminar

May 2008

This 1½-day seminar presented ways E&P companies can improve their performance in today's competitive market.

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W.P. (Bill) Gwozd, P.Eng., Vice President, Gas Services
"North American Supply & Demand"

While gas prices in 2009 were below the average full cycle cost of finding and producing natural gas, gas demand in North America was healthy and strong enough to support LNG imports from several countries around the world. Will this LNG import trend continue and if so, to what extent? Coupled with double digit North America gas supply basin decline rates, learn which gas basin(s?) is/are growing at low gas prices and concurrently, why gas demand for the world scale Alberta oil sands projects continue to grow with a steady uphill climb. See first hand how new growth from Shale Gas, Tight Gas, and CBM dovetail into the gas supply/demand projections to include gas supply from both Alaska and the Mackenzie Delta over the next decade. This is important to assist in your long range planning and business opportunity development in North America.

Ziff Energy was a sponsor of the Canadian Consul General and Energy Magazine's "Canada Night" Reception held on Monday, May 3, 2010, at the Wortham Center in Houston. The program included Hon. Darrell Dexter, Premier of Nova Scotia, Hon. Floyd Roland, Premier of Northwest Territories, Hon. Keith Ashfield, Minister of the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, other sponsors (including Chevron, Enbridge, and ExxonMobil).

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May 13 & 14, 2009
Port-of-Spain - Trinidad & Tobago

Paul Ziff, CEO of Ziff Energy spoke on the panel "Contracts & Pricing".

For more information, please visit http://www.spe.org/events/09apor/index.html.

Ziff Energy Presented Uptime Reliability Benchmarking Paper

Ziff Energy was selected to present a paper entitled "Benchmarking Operating Efficiency to Enhance Production from Mature Fields" at the 19th World Petroleum Congress (WPC) in Madrid from June 29 to July 3. The paper, delivered by Juan Carlos Alba, VP, and leader of E&P Services, explained Ziff Energy's consistent approach to the measurement of operating efficiency across companies, how benchmarking Uptime Reliability can contribute to higher immediate cash flow and a longer life for mature oil and gas fields.

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Ziff Energy Group presented 2 papers at the Global Petroleum Show: "Managing the Operating Efficiency Improvement Process for Mature Assets" and "Benchmarking Business Performance Against Industry Peers".

Ziff Energy CEO, Paul Ziff was invited to speak on the Active Arena panel at this year’s Offshore Technology Conference, held in Houston in May. Paul’s presentation focused on an Overview of Worldwide Oil Supply & the Growing Role of Angola. Angola’s growth is driven by Deepwater and Ultra-Deepwater operations, displaying an enviable success rate. By 2020 Angola’s oil production will be double 2005 – an impressive accomplishment. In the world context, Paul discussed the many challenges to world oil supply, including political and fiscal instability, high current cost inflation, labor/manpower (with the ‘Big Crew Change’ associated with ‘baby boom’ retirements), Technology (especially Deepwater & North), climate change, field maturity, and operating efficiency/uptime. In spite of these challenges, Paul’s speech ended on a positive note with 2020 world liquids supply up 20% from the 2005 level – to 104 MMBbl/d. Angola will, as a Deepwater leader, provide 5% of the world’s growth.