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Senegal Mauritania LNG
Simon Ferrie
4 February 2021
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Tortue gets back on track

Senegal’s flagship developments are beginning to shrug off Covid-19 impacts

Senegal’s two major offshore projects—the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim phase 1 floating LNG (FLNG) liquefaction plant and the Sangomar oil development—are both due to start production in 2023, heralding the country’s move towards becoming a hydrocarbons exporter. Tortue experienced delays in 2020 due to the knock-on effects of Covid-19, according to operator BP. Last year it declared force majeure on the delivery—originally due in 2022—of the project’s FLNG vessel, which is planned to have a design capacity of c.2.3mn t/yr LNG. The development’s first gas had been anticipated in 2022, but BP now expects first production in 2023. According to one of the consortium partners, US independent Kosmos En

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