Dakar, Jan 7 (APS) – The annual production of crude oil from the Sangomar field (west) amounts to approximately 16.9 million barrels, or 5.2 million barrels more than the quantity initially planned for the year 2024, we learned on Tuesday from the Ministry of Energy, Petroleum and Mines.
”In 2024, annual production amounted to approximately 16.9 million barrels of crude oil, thus exceeding the initial target of 11.7 million barrels,” the ministry said on its Facebook page.
He says about 16.4 million barrels of crude oil produced at Sangomar – almost the entire production – were sold on the international market.
The Ministry of Energy, Petroleum and Mines recalls that oil production started in Sangomar on June 2, 2024.
Twelve wells located on this oil field located about a hundred kilometers south of Dakar are all “active”, he says, adding that crude oil production from the Sangomar site reached 2.96 million barrels last December.
”During the same month, three cargoes with a total volume of 2.94 million barrels were […] marketed on the international market,” adds the same source.
Senegal fully entered into oil production last June, around ten years after the announcement of the discovery of oil deposits in Sangomar.
The Australian company Woodside Energy operates this oil site.
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