The Senegalese government is constructing an oil and gas training centre in Bango, close to the Mauritanian border.
The training centre will share the Grand Tortue Ahmeyin gas field that is being jointly developed by both Senegal and Mauritania. The project is said to cost $4.4 million and will be partly funded by the African Development Bank (AfDB).
Construction has commenced and will be completed in 24 months, and the school will be able to cater to 2,000 students in the first phase, to be expanded in the future.
The Minister of Professional Training Senegal, His Excellency Dame Diop, said the aim is to increase local participation of youths in the country’s petroleum sector. The location was purposely strategised alongside the size of the school to make it a sub-regional hub for oil and gas training.
The country’s first hydrocarbons production is set to commence in 2023 from the Sangomar oil field offshore Dakar and the Grand Tortue Ahmeyin gas field.
The first discovery was in 2015 and the country has continually strived to create a solid institutional and legal framework through the establishment of the Oil & Gas Strategic Orientation Committee. The committee is in charge of the implementation of the President’s vision, a new petroleum code, cooperating with neighbouring Mauritania, among others.
In 2019, Petrosen, the country’s state-owned oil company, announced that the operation of the block which was originally scheduled for 2021 and later postponed to 2022 has been postponed again to 2023.
Senegal aims to pump between 100,000 barrels to 120,000 barrels per day from the Deep Offshore Sangomar and Offshore Sangomar fields, with an estimated reserve of 2.5 billion barrels. Sangomar is situated at 90 kilometres off Senegal’s southern coastline and was tagged the largest conventional oil discovery in the world in 2014.
By the end of this decade, Senegal looks to become a major exporter of oil in Africa. The country is enjoined to register as an APPO member country after it commences full production.
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