Production has started at Senegal’s first offshore oil project, the Australian group Woodside Energy said Tuesday, as the country’s new government eyes higher profits from natural resources.
“This is a historic day for Senegal and for Woodside,” the company’s chief executive, Meg O’Neill, said in a statement.
The vessel extracting the oil is moored about 100 kilometers (60 miles) offshore at the Sangomar oil fields. The project aims to produce 100,000 barrels of oil per day, the statement said.
The discovery of oil and gas off the coast of Senegal in 2014 raised hopes…
