Mauritania-Senegal prospects

The Mauritanian and Senegalese governments see the deep-water Senegal River Basin’s reserves as offering potential feedstock for future gas-to-power schemes, as well as supplying the floating liquefaction plant planned by Kosmos and other international oil companies (IOCs) to export gas. This would provide an economic boost that officials have told African Energy outweighs any political tensions between the two countries. Moves to implement an inter-governmental co-operation agreement (IGCA), which would allow the two countries to commercialise their gas, are being “driven from the top” by Mauritanian President Mohammed Ould Abdelaziz and Senegalese President Macky Sall.