Oil-KTOBERFEST: Strictly Oil Served :)

Hello Ladies and Gentlemen. On behalf of the team I welcome you to a new and exciting month on 'The Mix: Oil and Water!'. It's OCTOBER!!! ...Yes, it's the start of the last quarter for the year 2011. As is the new practice we will whet your appetites for the upcoming month by highlighting the features of the community and by giving a preview of the content planned for the month. Today - as Nigeria celebrates its 51st independence day- 'The Mix: Oil and Water!' remembers that it is a proudly Nigerian initiative but internationally focused; with an international vision and participation. We hope to aid and develop Oil & Gas, Natural and Extractive Industry discourse with our internationally dimensioned discussions. We are also excited at the prospects for Nigeria developing into a stronger leader in the international discourse on these subjects with the continued growth of the Lagos Oil Club; and the emergence of the Ghana Oil Club and the Uganda Oil Club. This is an 'Africa Rising'- to take its place authoritatively and indeed on the international Oil & Gas map. Exciting days ahead.

CORE ARTICLES & OIL OF FAME:

This month will witness the addition of at least 11 new names and faces to our Oil of Fame while we will continue with topics from some of our existing Oil of Famers. Nima Nasrollahi Shahri starts with a series of articles and initially discusses the Resource Curse. Douglas Ugochukwu Agbo discusses Unconventional Petroleum and its future in World Energy Markets. Donald Ukpayang discusses the Strategy of Transformation in the Nigerian Oil & Gas sector, Sanusi Ohiare starts the discussion on Financing Rural Energy Projects in China and the lessons for Nigeria; and Ahmed Adamu starts discussion on Whether Nigerian should Deregulate its Downstream Sector. Other new Oil of Famers on the community are:

Tolu Togun, Chinwe Ezeigbo, Tochie Asogwa, Damilola Akinloye, Ibifaka Ben-Kalio, Ishaya Amaza, Nkiruka Madueke. We keep on adding to the numbers Oil of Famers and more will feature as the months progress towards the end of the year.

Existing Oil of Famers will continue with their reviews of topical issues. Gbolade Okeowo continues the discourse on the most admired company of 2011- Occidental, Abiodun Musa will also conclude her analysis of Mexico Oil giant- PEMEX. Mabel Imoh Gab-Umoden will lead us into an exciting tour of the Local Content dimension in the Nigerian Oil and Gas industry, Nkaepe Etteh and Amaka Araraume will continue their exciting articles. Exciting times indeed!!!

GENERAL INTEREST ARTICLES:

We select and post some of the most topical issues which generate discourse and further our understanding of  Strategy, Economic policy, Oil & Gas, Energy, Extractive and Natural Resources. Our target is to get about thirty (30) to forty (40) of these into the community. Please feel free to send in your researched articles to : fesobrightmail@gmail.com

TOP NEWS PICK:

We will strive to comb the world wide web in order to bring you the TOP News that address real issues in the Energy, Oil & Gas, Extractive and Natural Resources Industries. Our focus is to highlight the major topical news items in Europe, North America, Africa, China, Australia, South-West Asia and the Middle East. This is not to say that news from other regions will not be in the radar.

PHOTO OF THE WEEK:

We will bring you four (4) select photographs with accompanying poetry. The poetry seeks to engage the viewer to appreciate the ART, yet to find meaning in the topic through the expression and unique definition of the mastery in the Art. Joanna Rae is our Photography Artist and has partnered with us from inception.

WEEKEND DIGEST:

Expect to get four (4) weekend digests this month- giving you summaries of the week's posts and information on the best read articles for the week and all time.

GLOBAL ANALYST & TEAM MEMBER FEATURES:

We have analysts on the community who give us the benefit of their expertise in various fields of knowledge. We currently have 5 analysts on the community. Look out for Zaheer A. Shaikh, Bimbo Shode & co. Also our team members chip in with their features on the site. Look out for Arinola Akinyemi's articles on the environment.

GUEST EDITORS:

We keep on innovating and experimenting with great ideas. We have decided to invite select individuals who are responsible for stand-out initiatives in the industry and are pioneers in their own right- to give us an occasional opinion, share important articles and raise discussions on pertinent contemporary issues. We welcome Ambrose Atipo Peter to the community as a Guest Editor.

Ladies and Gentlemen. This community is yours. Gain as much as you can. Let us have some good quality discourse as well. 


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