BP marketing deal sets up Senegal-Mauritania LNG exports
Marketing agreement for phase one of Greater Tortue Ahmeyim will elevate the countries into the league of large-scale LNG exporters
BP and Kosmos Energy confirmed the production scale of a project that will establish Mauritania and Senegal as major hydrocarbon producers for the first time, when they signed the LNG sale and purchase agreement (SPA) for the first phase of the offshore Greater Tortue Ahmeyim gas project in 11 February. BP Gas Marketing—sole offtaker for the phase one export output—will buy 2.45mn t/yr of LNG for 20 years, under the accord signed with the Mauritanian and Senegalese hydrocarbons ministers, Mohamed Abdel Vetah and Makhtar Cisse. Also part of phase one, 70mn ft³/d of gas will be shared equally between the home markets in Mauritania and Senegal. That could be used to fuel electricity generat
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