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More gas lined up for Tortue LNG
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BP has had success at its Greater Tortue Ahmeyim-1 (GTA-1) well, offshore Senegal. Kosmos Energy, which is working with the UK-based super-major on the area, announced the result on July 1, saying the well was expected to be a future producer for the Tortue LNG pro- ject. e result will be used to optimise develop- ment drilling plans.
New York and London-listed Kosmos said the GTA-1 was drilled on the eastern anticline. It found 30 metres of net gas pay in a high-quality Albian reservoir. It was drilled in 2,500 metres of water, 10 km inboard from the Guembuel-1A and Tortue-1 wells. It reached a total depth of 4,884 metres, with drilling carried out by the Ensco DS-12 rig.
Next up for the rig is the Yakaar-2 appraisal well, also in Senegal, which should be spudded in the coming weeks. It will then go on to drill the Orca-1 exploration well in Mauritania, late in the third quarter.
“ e GTA-1 well con rms our expectation that the gas resource at Greater Tortue Ahmeyim
will continue to grow over time and could lead to further expansion of this world-scale 10mn [tonne per year] LNG project,” said Kosmos’ chairman and CEO, Andrew Inglis.
The official went on to note that Kosmos’ plans to reduce its stake in the project to 10% had “received considerable interest from the indus- try, with initial bids expected over the summer, and transaction conclusion anticipated by year end”.
Kosmos’ chief exploration officer, Tracey Henderson, talking at the Africa E&P Summit in May, had said the company wanted to remain a partner in the Tortue LNG project “but we want to reduce our involvement to a level that’s sus- tainable. Reducing our stake will cover our costs but also allow us to stay in it.”
e Tortue LNG project is due to produce rst gas in the rst half of 2022, with capacity of 2.5mn tpy under the rst phase, which could expand to 10mn tpy. There are also plans for another two hubs, each with up to 10mn tpy of throughput, which could follow.
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