Delivering Success in the Mauritania Senegal Basin

The recent success in the Mauritania Senegal Basin by Kosmos and BP has demonstrated a world-class hydrocarbon province with a significant discovered gas resource and substantial follow-on potential. It is the largest new petroleum system opened in the last 15 years along the Atlantic Margin outside of Brazil, with 25 TCF of gas discovered and 50 TCF de-risked (pmean). With an acreage position of roughly 50,000 square kilometres and only 7 wells drilled to date, much of the acreage position remains underexplored. Two drilling campaigns have been conducted. The first campaign was completed in 2016 resulting in the Tortue, Teranga and Marsouin discoveries. The second campaign, which began in early 2017, yielded further success with the world’s largest discovery of 2017, the Yakaar discovery. The second drilling campaign will be completed in early 2018 with the Requin Tigre well in northern Senegal.