Mauritania has joined the ranks of the world’s gas producers. BP, operator of the 2.3mn t/y Greater Tortue Ahmeyim LNG project on the maritime border with Senegal, announced on 2 January that it “has begun flowing gas… to its floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel for the next stage of commissioning.”
Partner Kosmos, in its subsequent 2 January release, says that first output was achieved on 31 December, just making its most recent “end-2024” target, though this represents a two-and-a-half year delay (MEES, 8 November 2024). The Dallas-based independent says that output is ramping up to 500mn cfd capacity and that it expects the first LNG cargo to load by the end of Q1 this year. BP, which has offtake rights for all of the project’s LNG output (MEES, 11 October), has moored its ‘British Sponsor’ LNG carrier alongside the project’s Gimi FLNG in order to begin loading the initial volumes. (CONTINUED - 646 WORDS)
