LNG

US energy engineering company KBR was awarded the preliminary front-end engineering contract by BP of the UK for the second and third phases of the Tortue natural gas project being pursued with Kosmos Energy of the US that will underpin floating LNG production on the maritime border between the West African nations of Senegal and Mauritania.

Leading Australian oil and gas company and LNG producer, Woodside Petroleum, is aiming to commercialise a huge field offshore Senegal by 2022 and said it could form the basis of a West African oil and natural gas hub.