Dallas-based independent Kosmos Energy is convinced it will eventually strike oil off Mauritania and Senegal after its latest wildcat made another “significant” discovery.
The company has laid out a comprehensive exploration programme in the region that includes multiple wells chasing oil into the second half of 2017.
At its Marsouin-1 probe in Block C-8 off Mauritania, Kosmos struck “at least” 70 metres of net gas pay in the Upper and Lower Cenomanian intervals, to add to a massive gas find earlier this year at the nearby Tortue-1 well — since renamed Ahmeyim.
However,
