Dear Colleagues,
The details of our 2nd annual conference on
border disputes has now gone to press and I
thought that you might like to see the
programme.
If you would like an Adobe Acrobat PDF version
of the whole programme by e-mail or would like
us to mail you a brochure, please send us your
full details (including phone and fax)
Naturally I'd be grateful if you could please
forward this e-mail on to anyone who you think
might also be interested.
We think that it is a very strong programme
(after all a number of you are speakers) and
we are therefore expecting a lot of interest
from the international oil companies, governments,
consultants and academics.
We therefore look forward to as many of you as
possible in London in mid-May
Best wishes
Charles Gurdon
Menas Associates
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ANALYSING INTERANTIONAL BORDER DISPUTES
Two day International Conference,
Tuesday 15th and Wednesday 16th May 2001
One Whitehall Place, London
Plus: One day Interactive Workshop,
Monday 14th May 2001
"The Politics and Practicalities of
Resolving Border Disputes"
DAY ONE - TUESDAY 15TH MAY
09:00 Welcome from GBN
09:05 Chairman's Introduction -
John McHugo, Trowers & Hamlins
09:10 Introduction to the principles of
sovereignty over land
John McHugo
Partner
Trowers & Hamlins
09:30 International land boundary disputes:
A global overview
Clive Schofield
Deputy Director
International Boundaries Research Unit
10:00 International maritime boundary disputes:
Impact upon offshore oil and gas development
Dr Robert Smith
US State Dept
Office of Ocean Affairs
10:30 Tea, coffee and discussion
TRANS BOUNDARY ISSUES
11:00 Cross border energy flows, from the
Energy Charter Treaty perspective
Adnan Amkhan
Head of Legal Affairs
Energy Charter Secretariat
11:20 Trans-border Pipelines
Robert Volterra
Head of Public International Law Group
Freshfields
11:50 Avoiding disputes : Commercial and practical
issues in cross-border projects
Nick Hills
International Energy Project Consultant,
Partner, Beard-Hills
12:10 Technical aspects of maritime delimitation
Chris Carleton
Head, Law of the Sea Division
UK Hydrographic Office
12:40 Using Satellite data in international
boundary delimitation
Dr Robin Cleverly
Exploration Applications Manager
NPA Group
13:00 Lunch
THE MIDDLE EAST
14:00 Qatar/Bahrain: Sovereignty, land and
maritime boundary disputes in the ICJ
Prof. Maurice Mendelson QC
14:30 Maritime delimitation in the Northern Gulf
Richard Schofield
GRC, SOAS
15:00 Tea, coffee and discussion
THE FORMER SOVIET UNION
15:30 Disputes in the Caspian Sea: Continuing
controversy and changing positions
Dr Sergei Vinogradov
Senior Research Fellow
University of Dundee
16:00 Case Study of Azerbaijan: Oil Export Routes
Israfil Mamedov
SOCAR
16:30 The Norwegian/Russian border dispute
Jay Wagner
Senior Consultant: Environmental Affairs
Menas Associates Ltd
17:00 Petroleum, Development and the Fourth
World: The price of conflict or cooperation
Dr Rudolph Ryser
Chair
Center for World Indigenous Studies
17:45 Chairman's summation
18:00 Close of day one.
DAY TWO: WEDNESDAY 16th May
Chairman's introduction
Dr Charles Gurdon,
Menas Associates
WEST AFRICA
09:00 Maritime boundary disputes in the
Gulf of Guinea
Rodman Bundy
Partner
Frere Cholmeley, Paris
09:30 Namibia/Angola and Namibia/South Africa
maritime boundary disputes
Leon Edward Moller
Petroleum Commissioner
Ministry of Mines and Energy, Namibia
10:00 Analysing the Angola/Congo dispute
Alan Perry
Partner, Litigation Dept
DJ Freeman
10:30 Tea, coffee and discussion
11:00 Cameroon/Nigeria land and maritime
boundary disputes
Prof. Malcolm Shaw
Leicester University
11:30 Nigeria/Cameroon: Genesis of a dispute
Tim Daniel
Head of Public International Law
DJ Freeman
12:00 Nigeria, tribal boundary disputes and E&P
Dahiru Bobbo
Director-General
Nigerian National Boundaries Commission
12:30 Lunch
LATIN AMERICA
13:30 Native land conflicts in Latin America
Susan Reider
Senior Partner
The Terra Group, USA
14:00 Venezuelan - Colombian border dispute
in the Gulf of Venezuela
Dr Roy Bradshaw
Nottingham University
14:30 Trinidad & Tobago/Venezuela
15:00 Venezuela and its border disputes
Representative of the Venezuelan Government
15:30 Tea, coffee and discussion
16:00 Border disputes on the NE Shoulder
of South America
Peggy Hoyle
LeBoeuf, Lamb, Green & MacRae, USA
16:30 Cross Border projects in South America
Peter Cassidy
Partner
Masons
17:00 Conference summation
George Joffe
17:25 Conference Chairman
17:40 Close of conference.
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