Mauritania/Senegal: Kosmos gives details on ‘world-class’ Tortue find

Kosmos Energy has said its Tortue-1 discovery well has opened a new outboard play on its acreage offshore Mauritania and northern Senegal, but it is too early to say how the gas might be developed. Kosmos, which in 2007 drilled the Mahogany-1 discovery well that found the Jubilee field offshore Ghana, said the well had tested the Tortue West prospect, part of the Greater Tortue complex. Kosmos estimates reserves in Tortue West at between 5tcf and 12tcf, with a mean resource of 8tcf, while for the Greater Tortue complex, which extends into northern Senegal, it estimates the resource potential at between 6tcf and 22tcf.