Oil and gas major Woodside Petroleum on Thursday announced that the government of Senegal has approved the Rufisque offshore, Sangomar offshore and Sangomar Deep offshore joint venture exploitation plan, and has granted authorization for the Sangomar field development.
The Sangomar development concept is a stand-alone floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) facility with 23 subsea wells and supporting subsea infrastructure, with the facility expected to have a production capacity of 100 000 barrels a day, and would process the oil before it is exported to market via tanks.