Senegal has had to rethink its upstream priorities in the wake of continued controversy around plans to attract major oil companies such as Total into offshore acreage.

Upstream understands that an ultra-deepwater licensing round promised by state-owned Petrosen director general Mamdou Faye is now off the table because it is believed the exercise would not attract suitors in the current climate — several existing licences are under threat of revocation and litigation.

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