Pharos Energy has been confirmed as a contributing sponsor of the World Energies Summit - and the timing puts them squarely at the centre of the conversation as the independents’ perspective continues to climb the global upstream agenda.

New Producers for Sustainable Energy (NP4SE) is a network of 22 governments - from Guyana and Mozambique to Uganda and Timor-Leste - and with over 1,000 government officials across its member countries, NP4SE brings a fundamental perspective to the Summit agenda; the producer's view from Day One.

The World Energies Summit has redefined global upstream gatherings - and government participation sits at the very heart of that distinction.

The big questions in global upstream - where the next barrels come from, how frontier acreage competes for scarce capital, what energy security really requires - can't be answered by any one part of the value chain.

Few companies embody global upstream reach quite like bp - and this year, that reach lands at the Summit.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Why Shell is in the room at World Energies Summit ‘26

Welcome to The Surge, as we cut through the noise to tell you what actually matters in global upstream; the thinking shaping the market, the deals and rounds worth watching, and where you can join the conversation in person.

As one of the most trusted independent voices in energy market intelligence, Rystad Energy brings exactly the kind of data-driven perspective our community comes to the Summit for: clear, evidence-based insight into where global upstream is heading next.

This news lands just weeks after we revealed the participation of the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Energy Regulator (C-NLOER) at this year's Summit, and the timing couldn't be sharper.