Afroil: Woodside postpones first oil at Sangomar until mid-2024

Australia’s Woodside Energy has announced that it will delay the start-up of oil production at the Sangomar offshore Senegal due to the need for remedial work.

Woodside, which owns an 82% stake in Sangomar, had initially hoped to commence development work at the block and later moved the target date for first oil back to late 2023. But on July 18, it revealed that the start-up had been postponed to mid-2024.

The Australian company explained the delay by noting that it had encountered an unexpected need for remedial work on its floating production, storage and off-loading (FPSO) vessel. It did not specify the exact nature of the repairs to be done, but it did say that it would carry out the necessary operations in the Singapore shipyard where the Léopold Sédar Senghor FPSO has been under construction. This approach should minimise the impact of the postponement on the project’s overall schedule, it remarked.