Petronas’s PFLNG project. Senegal may opt for a custom-built vessel. (Petronas)
Senegal and Mauritania are gearing up to make an FID on a joint 2.5 mtpa FLNG facility in September 2017, which could put the two countries ahead of Equatorial Guinea and Mozambique in the race to be Africa’s next LNG exporter.
"We’re planning FID by September next year, and if we take the [FLNG] conversion option then first gas [could be expected] in 2020," Mamadou Faye, managing director of Senegalese state oil company Petrosen, told Interfax Natural Gas Daily on the sidelines of the EIC Senegal Export Showcase in London on Friday.
Kosmos Energy – the operator of the huge gas blocks that straddle the maritime boundaries of Mauritania and Senegal – is holding regular meetings with representatives from Petrosen, Mauritanian state oil company SMHPM and the ministries of energy of both countries to refine the FLNG concept.
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