Senegal gears up for first Woodside oil and BP gas

Teranga security group boosts its board with French five-star general and former diplomat 

Teranga SA is betting on more business and has recruited three new members to its board of directors, including two former French heavyweights in Africa: General Grégoire de Saint-Quentin and the former deputy director of West Africa at the foreign ministry, Laurent Bigot. [...]

Dakar studies pipeline from GTA gas field to onshore power station 

Senegal is studying the possibility of linking the Grand Tortue Ahmeyim offshore LNG project to a power station in Saint-Louis via a pipeline. It has launched a call for expressions of interest from local and foreign companies. [...]

• EGYPT - Youssef Salem, the unflappable unicorn creator. 

• ANGOLA - Territory administration Minister Dionisio Manuel da Fonseca, João Lourenço's new straight-talking champion.

• MOZAMBIQUE - Emilia Chambal speaks for the Frelimo youth.

• SENEGAL - Thierno Seydou Ly, the engineer with a career on the fast track. 

Fortesa, two years after deadly Gadiaga explosion, plans to drill new well 

Fortesa, the operator of Gadiaga - Senegal's only producing gas field - is planning costly work on its onshore block. The aim is to increase the yield, which was drastically reduced after a deadly fire in 2020 and the decommissioning of a well. [...]

Southey Offshore eyes up Senegal 

The presence of the South African oil services firm in West Africa is currently limited to Ghana. The company's management wants to reverse this trend by targeting French-speaking Africa. [...]

BP considering BirAllah gas project withdrawal 

As it continues to shed assets across the continent, the British major is unlikely to spud a new well on its conventional gas development BirAllah. Behind its half-hearted attempts at denial are signs it is planning to abandon the project it shares with Kosmos Energy. [...]

BP likely to postpone FID for phase 2 for Grand Tortue 

The British major has many political and technical issues to resolve before it can take its final investment decision. [...]

• SENEGAL - Mamadou Fall Kane, presidential oil adviser, branches out into mining

• GUINEA-BISSAU - Saico Umaro Embaló, the president's nephew and Turkey envoy

• DR CONGO - Arthur Omar Kayumba, Tshisekedi's Grand Inga irritant

• ETHIOPIA - Wintana Shimelis, in charge of the UK's Diageo in Addis

• LIBYA - Ahmed al-Sharkasi, the PM's low-key advisor

Consulting firm Gaffney Cline becomes two-time winner on Tortue 

After advising the special oil unit, COS Petrogaz, housed within the president's office of Senegal, on the technical and financial issues involved in the Tortue gas mega-project, the British technical and strategic consultancy firm specialising in hydrocarbons, Gaffney, Cline & Associates, was retained at the end of December by neighbouring Mauritania to "develop a strategic vision for the oil sector". [...]

Petrosen makes BP spin its wheels over Yakaar Teranga 

The 40% cost increase that BP wants to impose on the Mauritanian and Senegalese governments to develop Grand Tortue Ahmeyim is one of the stumbling blocks fuelling tensions between Senegal and the British major. [...]

Local content nightmare haunts Macky Sall and Petrosen 

The local content bill application decrees are on the path to becoming an enduring headache for the Senegalese president. [...]