Kosmos Energy expects material growth in 2026 from expanded gas production both in Ghana and at the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) floating LNG project offshore Mauritania and Senegal.
Italian energy company Eni has started natural gas production from the Sankofa gas field offshore Ghana as the West Africa nation still awaits firm progress on one of the various LNG import projects it has been involved in to meet its growing energy needs.
ExxonMobil said it signed an agreement with the government of the West African state of Ghana, currently involved in LNG import plans, to acquire exploration and production rights for the Deepwater Cape Three Points block.
Hoegh LNG, the Norwegian fleet operator and project developer, has ended its involved in an import venture in Pakistan that involved a charter agreed and the deployment of a vessel near Karachi.
JGC Corp., the Japanese energy and LNG specialist engineering company, said it had joined a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) charter project that will help supply offshore natural gas for Ghana as early as 2018 at a time when the West African state is planning LNG import ventures.
Hoegh LNG, the Norwegian import terminal developer and fleet operator, said long-term outlook for the floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) market remains solid, though it warned that ventures were complex and reliant on a host of factors as one of its ventures was cancelled and two others suffered further delays.
Anadarko Petroleum Corp., one of the main participants in projects to develop LNG production in Mozambique, reported a third-quarter net loss as it finalized the legal framework for its southeast African liquefaction plant and sealed a sales contract to supply cargoes to Thailand.
Gazprom Global LNG, part of the trading arm of the Russian natural gas company, said it signed an initial 12-year gas sales agreement with Ghana National Petroleum Corp., the state-owned energy company in the West African nation.
Ghana has signed an agreement for the nation to receive liquefied natural gas cargoes for a period of 15 years from West African neighbour and producer Equatorial Guinea as it awaits several planned import facilities to finally be completed.
Norway-based IM Skaugen is beginning its medium-term contract to charter three of its multi-gas carriers to a small-scale LNG venture in the West African state of Ghana.