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Senegal’s president sees Phase 2 of LNG

production starting at GTA in 2024 or 2025

SENEGAL/MAURITANIA MACKY Sall, the president of Senegal, said on the MSGBC Oil, Gas & Power 2022 conference
September 1 that he expects BP (UK) to launch on September 1 that work on the floating pro-
the second phase of its natural gas and LNG duction, storage and off-loading (FPSO) vessel
development project at the offshore Greater that will be installed at GTA was moving for-
Tortue/Ahmeyim (GTA) block in 2024 or 2025. ward. The ship is slated to sail from the Chinese
Speaking on the opening day of the MSGBC shipyard where it is being built before the end of
Oil, Gas & Power 2022 conference in Dakar, 2023, he said.
Sall said BP and its US-based partner Kosmos GTA contains around 15 trillion cubic feet
Energy anticipated spending $5bn on Phase 2, (425bn cubic metres) of gas, enough to support
which will boost the volume of LNG produced an export-oriented LNG project as well as pipe-
from GTA gas to 5mn tonnes per year (tpy) to line deliveries to Senegal’s domestic market.
10mn tpy. (His figures are at odds with those Kosmos discovered gas at the block in 2015 and
previously stated by the investors, which have then teamed up with BP for the project in 2016.
said they aim to produce 2.5mn tpy of LNG in The two companies made an FID on Phase
Phase 1 and 5mn tpy in Phase 2, perhaps rising 1 of the project in late 2018. To support LNG
in stages later to 10mn tpy. The reasons for the production, they have contracted Bermu-
discrepancy were not immediately clear.) da-registered Golar LNG to convert the Gimi
The president also reported that the compa- LNG tanker into an FLNG vessel with a Phase
nies would not be waiting to launch Phase 2 and 1 production capacity of 2.5mn tonnes per year
would start work on the next part of the project (tpy). ™
shortly after bringing Phase 1 online in 2023.
“Phase 2 ... will come immediately after Phase
1,” he stated. He did not say when the project’s
shareholders were likely to make a final invest-
ment decision (FID) on Phase 2 of the project.
US-based Kosmos stated recently that they
hoped to reach this milestone by the end of the
third quarter of 2022.
BP and its partner are about 80% complete
with all preparations for the launch of Phase 1
operations at the GTA block, which straddles
the offshore border between Mauritania and
Senegal. They expect to begin extracting gas
in the third quarter of 2023 and will then load
and export their first cargo of LNG in the fourth
quarter of the same year.
Gordon Birrell, BP’s executive vice president
for production and operations, said separately at GTA straddles the Senegal-Mauritania maritime border (Image: Kosmos Energy)

Kyari says NNPC Ltd has locked in crude

supply agreement with Dangote Refinery

NIGERIA MELE Kyari, the group CEO of Nigerian NNPC Ltd owns a 20% equity stake in the
National Petroleum Co. Ltd (NNPC Ltd), said Dangote plant and has the right of first refusal
on August 30 that his company has already with respect to supplying feedstock to the refin-
locked in long-term supply arrangements with ery for processing over a period of 20 years, he
the Dangote Refinery, the massive oil-process- stated, according to a report from Premium
ing plant now under construction near Lagos. Times.

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