This session highlights the opportunities as several new and existing energy countries offer their prospects, how, coming out of a global pandemic and low oil price, sub-saharan Africa’s NOCs are adapting and maximizing their potentials, what strategies have been enacted to drive investment into existing and future prospects, strategies in place to ensure prospecting companies throughout the value chain have sustainability at the heart of investments and the role of energy transition within existing and future exploration.The session, moderated by the former Monister of State for Petroleum Resources and former OPEC and APPO President, Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, had a hybrid group of panelists consisting of Representatives from the National Oil Company of Liberia (NOCAL); Uganda National Oil Company;National Oil Corporation, Kenya; Gambia National Petroleum Corporation; Societe Mauritanienne (SMH), Islamic Republic of Mauritania andPETROSEN, Senegal.