Oil production at Senegal’s Sangomar offshore field operated by Australia’s Woodside \u200bEnergy Group reached 17.9 million barrels for \u200cthe year by the end of June, the energy ministry said on Monday.<\/p>\n
Sangomar’s oil output \u200bwas at 3.1 million barrels in \u200bJanuary, 2.8 million in February, 3.1 \u2060million in March, 2.9 million in \u200bApril, 3.1 million in May and 2.9 \u200bmillion in June.<\/p>\n
Last year, the field produced an average of 3 million barrels per month. Oil \u200boutput for the year stood at 36.2 \u200bmillion barrels.<\/p>\n
Operator Woodside Energy is evaluating a second phase \u200cof \u2060development that could further increase production, the African Energy Chamber said last week.<\/p>\n
Oil and gas production helped boost Senegal’s economic \u200bgrowth to \u200b6.7% \u2060last year and increased exports while reducing the current account deficit, \u200bthe economy ministry said in \u200ba \u2060report last month.<\/p>\n
Senegal’s Finance Minister Cheikh Diba said last week that revenues from hydrocarbon production \u2060would \u200bcover priority expenditures to \u200bachieve a significant reduction in poverty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Oil production at Senegal’s Sangomar offshore field operated by Australia’s Woodside \u200bEnergy Group reached 17.9 million barrels for \u200cthe year by the end of June, the energy ministry said on Monday. Sangomar’s oil output \u200bwas at 3.1 million barrels in \u200bJanuary, 2.8 million in February, 3.1 \u2060million in March, 2.9 million in \u200bApril, 3.1 million […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12185,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","source_name":"Reuters","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2831,2362,27],"tags":[3395,5287,283,5288],"class_list":["post-21364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","category-featured","category-west-africa","tag-cheikh-diba","tag-sangomar-offshore","tag-senegal","tag-woodside-energy-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21365,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21364\/revisions\/21365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}