The Sangomar Field Development Phase 1 (Sangomar Development) has been approved by the Rufisque Offshore, Sangomar Offshore and Sangomar Deep Offshore (RSSD) joint venture and has entered theexecute phase of activities. Woodside, as operator of the RSSD joint venture, has executed the purchase contract for the floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) facility and issued full notices to proceed for the drilling and subsea construction and installation contracts. The key contractors for the development are:• MODEC, Inc. for the purchase…

The Liberia Petroleum Regulatory Authority has announced the launch of its next offshore licensing round, expected to commence in April 2020. Nine blocks will be on offer in the Harper basin, one of the last unexplored and undrilled regions offshore West Africa. Geophysical company TGS holds a range of multi-client data across this acreage to support the licensing round, including 5,272 kilometers of 2D and 6,276 square kilometers of 3D seismic, gravity and magnetic data. Syn-rift structural traps can be…

Senegal has authorised the West African country’s first oil development, the $4.2 billion Sangomar offshore oil project, operator Woodside Petroleum said on Thursday. The approval from the Government of Senegal paves the way for investment decisions for the Sangomar project to proceed. Partners in the project are eager to push ahead even as they await the outcome of an arbitration over a dispute. Australian oil minnow Far Ltd, a minority partner in the project, has been mired in a legal…

Seismic services provider Shearwater GeoServices has been awarded a 3D Isometrix seismic acquisition project by FAR in the Gambia. Shearwater said on Tuesday that the one-month survey would cover parts of block A5 offshore Gambia in the rapidly emerging and prolific Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Conakry (MSGBC) Basin. The seismic company also said that the survey would be acquired by the SW Amundsen and provide new seismic over a shallow-water area and connect with existing seismic to provide full coverage…

BP Plc (BP.L) on Monday said a three-well drilling programme offshore Mauritania and Senegal encountered gas in “high quality”, bolstering its confidence in gas resources in the region. The oil and gas major said here the three appraisal wells drilled this year, GTA-1, Yakaar-2 and Orca-1, encountered 160 meters of net pay, a measure of a reservoir’s thickness. In November, the Orca-1 well offshore Mauritania, partly owned with Kosmos Energy (KOS.N) and Société Mauritanienne Des Hydrocarbures et de Patrimoine Minier, was further…

The Government of Liberia through the Liberia Petroleum Regulatory Authority (LPRA) announces sale of several blocks here, beginning next licensing round.A statement from the Liberia Petroleum Regulatory Authority says the decision followed an unsuccessful ratification of negotiated petroleum sharing contracts in 2014, which climaxed the last round of bidding process. The statement issued over the weekend notes the Government of Liberia made a shrewd and progressive decision, through a robust reform process to provide efficient institutional governance system, maximize revenue…

Australia’s largest oil and gas producer Woodside is pressing ahead with its plans to develop Senegal’s first oil project, announcing the final field plan has now been submitted to the West African nation’s government for approval. Describing the move as a “major milestone”, Woodside chief executive Peter Coleman said the project’s development plan was the last outstanding regulatory submission required before Woodside and its joint-venture partners could make a final investment decision later this month. Mr Coleman said it demonstrated…

Woodside, as operator of the Sangomar (formerly named SNE) Field Development, is pleased to advise the Sangomar Development and Exploitation Plan and exploitation authorisation request were submitted to the Government of Senegal on 2 December 2019. The Development and Exploitation Plan and exploitation authorisation request are the last major regulatory submissions required before final investment decisions can be made by each joint venture participant, which is targeted to occur later this month subject to the grant of an exploitation authorisation…

Following on from last month’s official invitations that were sent by Mr Yaya Barrow, Managing Diretor, GNPC The Gambia, to all of the National Oil Companies from across West Africa, inviting their respective CEOs, Directeur Generals & Managing Directors to attend the first ever International Upstream Oil & Gas event in The Gambia which is taking place next June 17th – 18th 2020 in Banjul, The Gambia. News was received this morning from La Société des Pétroles du Sénégal (PETROSEN),…

ASKER, NORWAY – The National Oil Company of Senegal, PETROSEN, has announced the launch of the country’s first offshore licensing round. The round will be open for six months – until the end of July 2020 – and will comprise 10 offshore exploration blocks. Senegal’s MSGBC basin is home to several recent high-profile oil and gas discoveries, set in a variety of play types, both on and off the carbonate shelf. These include the Albian sandstone shelf edge SNE oil…