Flanked by his two trusty aides - director general of hydrocarbons Stev Simplice Onanga and upstream adviser Fabrice Davy Okassa - Congolese hydrocarbons minister Bruno Jean-Richard Itoua made the journey to Africa Energy Week, which took place in Cape Town from 17 to 21 October. Maixent Raoul Ominga, director-general of Societe Nationale des Petroles du Congo (SNPC), who was unable to attend, sent his upstream oil projects coordinator, Odifax Loko, to the rival Africa Oil Week event, which took