据Gas Processing网2019年9月23日休斯顿报道，在美国上市的油气勘探公司科斯莫斯能源公司（Kosmos Energy）表示，该公司日前在塞内加尔近海钻探的评估结果很好，可以考虑在这个西非国家建造第二个液化天然气(LNG)出口厂。

科斯莫斯能源公司在2015年在塞内加尔和毛里塔尼亚近海发现了Greater Tortue天然气田，并与英国石油公司(BP)合作通过一个浮式液化天然气(FLNG)厂开发了这些发现，这是塞内加尔的第一个此类生产设施。

Tortue是科斯莫斯能源公司正在塞内加尔近海勘探和开发的3个天然气藏之一。另外两个天然气藏位于亚卡尔地区和比拉拉地区。

科斯莫斯能源公司周一表示，位于亚卡尔地区的第二口井的钻井结果“支持了我们的观点，即亚卡尔-特朗加资源基地具有全球规模并有潜力支持一个能向国内市场和出口市场提供大量天然气的LNG项目。”

科斯莫斯能源公司表示，这口发现井已经证实了其此前对该气田向南延伸的估计。

科斯莫斯能源公司最终希望，这3个天然气产区将支持3个LNG终端，每年出口3000万吨LNG，约占目前全球LNG出口量的10%。

李峻 编译自 Gas Processing

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Kosmos touts 2nd LNG plant in Senegal after drilling results

Kosmos Energy, a U.S.-listed oil and gas exploration company, said the results of its appraisal drilling offshore Senegal were good enough to consider a second liquefied natural gas (LNG) export plant in the West African country.

Kosmos discovered the Greater Tortue accumulation of gas offshore Senegal and Mauritania in 2015 and partnered with BP to develop the discoveries through a floating LNG (FLNG) plant, Senegal's first such production facility.

Tortue is one of a troika of gas accumulations offshore Senegal that Kosmos is exploring and developing. The other two are the Yakaar and Birallah regions.

On Monday, it said the results of its second well at Yakaar "underpin our view that the Yakaar-Teranga resource base is world-scale and has the potential to support an LNG project that provides significant volumes of natural gas to both domestic and export markets".

It said the well, drilled in 2.5 km (1.6 miles) of water and 9 km from the first Yakaar well, had proven the company's estimates of the gas field's southern extension.

Kosmos ultimately hopes the three gas regions will support three LNG terminals exporting 30 million tonnes a year (mtpa) - around 10% of global LNG volumes today.