LNG

Kosmos Energy, the Dallas-based oil and gas exploration and production company with assets in the Gulf of Mexico and West Africa, has posted solid earnings and plans a new LNG export project from the Yakaar-Teranga gas fields offshore Senegal in addition to the ongoing FLNG ventures based on the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim resources shared between Senegal and Mauritania.

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.

March 6 (LNGJ) - Woodside Petroleum, operator of the Northwest Shelf and Pluto LNG plants in Western Australia, said it holds a 30 percent stake in the Likuale block offshore Gabon in West Africa where Malaysian company Petronas has made a natural gas and oil discovery as operator. The Boudji-1 exploration well in the Likuale block intersected a 90 metres gross oil and gas column in high quality hydrocarbon-bearing pre-salt sands. “The operator, in conjunction with the Government of Gabon, will conduct an assessment to understand the commerciality of the resource,” said Woodside, which is finalizing the Likuale acquisition. The Australian company said when the deal was completed it would be the largest gross acreage holder in deep water offshore Gabon with interests in four blocks covering 16,776 square kilometres.