African LNG boost
Sept 27 (LNGJ) - Kosmos Energy, the shareholder along with UK major BP in the floating LNG export project offshore Senegal and Mauritania, said the completed floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit for the venture that had broken free from the quayside during a typhoon at a Chinese shipyard on September 15 had been returned to the quayside.
Kosmos, based in Dallas, Texas, reported the incident after Typhoon Muifa had passed through the Shanghai region and China’s Cosco Shipping Heavy Industry shipyard in Qidong. “Inspections conducted to date have not identified any significant damage. The forward plan is to complete all inspections and incorporate the findings into the remaining work scope prior to sailaway,” said Kosmos.
UK major BP pledges to be oil, gas and LNG player for decades after fears it had caved in to extremists
The Chief Executive of BP said the UK major would continue producing hydrocarbons in the form of oil and natural gas for pipelines and LNG for many decades to come and would benefit from rising oil prices, reducing investor concerns over the past two years that BP was pandering to environmental extremists who had attacked its London headquarters.
Kosmos makes world’s largest deepwater find this year with Mauritania gas to boost LNG plans
Kosmos Energy, the US stakeholder in floating LNG projects offshore Mauritania and Senegal with BP of the UK, said they made a major natural gas discovery at the Orca-1 exploration well offshore Mauritania in West Africa.
