LNG

Dec 21 (LNGJ) - BP of the UK and US exploration and production company Kosmos Energy, the developers of two floating LNG projects offshore the West African countries of Senegal and Mauritania, have been awarded five new blocks off the Cote d'Ivoire under an agreement with state energy company, Societe Nationale d'Operations Petroliere de Cote d'Ivoire, known as Petroci. The government said BP and Kosmos will hold 90 percent of the oil blocks in the Gulf of Guinea and Petroci would own 10 percent. The Cote d'Ivoire has recently awarded a number of licences after an international tribunal settled a dispute with neighbouring Ghana over their shared maritime boundary that had slowed exploration activities in the region.

French energy company Total said it had now formally become the operator of the planned floating liquefied natural gas import terminal venture being developed for the West African nation of the Ivory Coast.