Yakaar-Teranga gas to prioritise Senegalese market

Kosmos and BP have found more gas in Senegal, but further LNG exports will have to wait

First production from developments based on the Yakaar-Teranga gas resources off northern Senegal are set go to the domestic market, according to the regional head of Dallas-based producer Kosmos Energy, with LNG exports to follow later. “It is envisioned that phase one of the Yakaar-Teranga gas development would be a domestic gas phase,” Todd Niebruegge, head of the Mauritania-Senegal business unit at Kosmos Energy tells Petroleum Economist. The Atlantic Margin focused E&P firm in late September that results from its Yakaar-2 appraisal well had “proved up” the southern extension of the field. The well encountered 30 metres of net gas pay in a “similar high-quality Cenomanian reserv

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