BP and US partner Kosmos Energy are preparing to spud a wildcat on the huge Requin Tigre gas prospect off Senegal after their much anticipated Lamantin-1 exploration probe off Mauritania was declared a failure, writes Iain Esau.
Requin Tigre is estimated to hold about 60 trillion cubic feet of gas in a Cenomanian-Albian fan structure with a better risk profile than Lamantin because it lies in the proven Senegal River system about 60 kilometres west of the two companies’ Tortue discovery and 80 kilometres north of their Yakaar discovery.
