OPINION: Senegal is reeling from the impact of last month’s BBC broadcast purporting to incriminate President Macky Sall, his brother, top officials and oil companies of malfeasance in the award of two licences to Petro-Tim, a vehicle associated with Romanian-Australian businessman Frank Timis.
Later farmed out to Timis Corporation, Kosmos Energy and BP, the St Louis Offshore Deep and Cayar Offshore Deep blocks are believed to host 50 trillion cubic feet of gas, with first LNG shipments from the Greater Tortue-Ameyhim (GTA) complex straddling Mauritania’s maritime boundary expected in 2022.
