To highlight what Kosmos claims is its commitment to ensuring local participation and proceeding in the interests of the Sahrawi people, the US player will next week inaugurate a “supply chain base” in Cabo Bojador.

Environmental and social impact studies are ongoing for the well, which will be drilled by Atwood Oceanics’ drillship Atwood Achiever in the middle of the block, which extends out towards the Spanish island of Las Palmas.

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