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FPSO vessel for the bp-operated Greater Tortue Ahmeyim project successfully sets sail for project site

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The floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel for the bp-operated Greater Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) liquefied natural gas (LNG) project has started its journey towards the project site off the coasts of Mauritania and Senegal in West Africa. It is the deepest offshore project in Africa to date. million meters of cable.

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Cairn, ConocoPhillips confirm oil find offshore Senegal

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Cairn, ConocoPhillips and their other joint venture partners confirmed that oil was discovered in the FAN-1 exploration well, located approximately 60 miles (97 km) offshore Senegal, in Northwest Africa. It is the third well in Cairn’s North West Africa program and first in Senegal. The three blocks cover 7,490 km 2.

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UTM Offshore signs FEED agreement for Nigeria’s first floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility

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The penetration of FNLG in Africa, which started in Cameroon and expanded to Angola and Mozambique and now to Senegal, Mauritania and Nigeria, highlights Africa’s commitment to unlocking the full exploitation of its gas resources. UTM Offshore’s signing of the deal will be a game changer within Africa’s gas market.

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BHP offboards its petroleum business in merger with Woodside; focus on “future-facing commodities”

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The Atlantis Phase 3 (US), Mad Dog Phase 2 (US), Shenzi North (US) and Sangomar Field Development Phase 1 (Senegal) projects remain on budget and on track, and along with significant brownfield expansion options, provide opportunity for near- and medium-term growth. BHP also recently announced that it will supply Tesla Inc. Earlier post.).

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MIT study: people globally follow a “visitation law”; inverse relationship between distance and frequency of visits

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To conduct the study, the researchers used anonymized cellphone data from large communications providers to track the movement of people in the metro areas of Abidjan, Ivory Coast; Boston; Braga, Lisbon, and Porto, Portugal; Dakar, Senegal; and Singapore. Schläpfer, M., O’Keeffe, K. 2021) “The universal visitation law of human mobility.”

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IISD Releases Five-Part Series of Reports on Removing Fossil Fuel Subsidies

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Channelling resources to interest groups can be a tool to promote government survival, such as by influencing voting decisions or donations to political campaigns. The Politics of Fossil-Fuel Subsidies. This paper argues that the failure to fully reform subsidies lies in a failure to appreciate the politics behind such policies.

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Will EU demand for biofuel mean starvation for world’s poorest?

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According to the publication, many African countries have expanded single-crop farming surfaces as a response to European hunger for biofuel, leading to land, water and other limited resources being diverted from scarce food-producing crops. Despite this, several African states have drafted policies in favour of biofuel crops.

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