Asset Report
Mauritania Senegal - Bove exploration basin
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Report summary
Early exploration in the basin focused on the Tertiary deepwater play. The 2001 Chinguetti discovery created initial excitement that was short lived due to performance issues at the field, leading to substantial reserves downgrades. In 2015, Kosmos Energy made the multi-tcf Tortue (formerly Ahmeyim) gas discovery in Mauritania. A further well in January 2016, proved up the extension of the Greater Tortue Complex south in to neighbouring Senegal. Also in 2015, Kosmos made a second large gas discovery with its Marsouin-1 exploration well. BP and Kosmos discovered the 10 tcf Orca field in 2019, confirming the continued potential of the basin. Following the oil price crash and coronavirus crisis in 2020, timing of further exploration in the basin is uncertain.
Table of contents
- Wells drilled and success rates
- Basin success rates
- Volumes discovered
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Prospective resource potential
- Play inputs
- Model field pool size distribution
- Existing discoveries and modelled prospective resource pool size distribution
- Prospective resource costs and underlying development assumptions
- Licensing
- Fiscal terms
- Oil and gas prices
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TYP economics
- Outlook economics
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Development value
- Cretaceous-Tertiary Deepwater Oil
- Cretaceous-Tertiary Deepwater Gas
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Prospect breakeven price
- Cretaceous-Tertiary Deepwater Oil
- Cretaceous-Tertiary Deepwater Gas
- Expected monetary value (EMV)
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Tables and charts
This report includes the following images and tables:
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Drilling activity by well typeDiscoveries and success ratesDiscoveries and success rates
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Discoveries by licence year and drilling yearBasin creaming curveKey basin dataVolumes discovered by yearAverage discovery size and volume per well by yearTop discoveries (TYP period)Cumulative discoveries by playCumulative volumes discovered by playForecast data by play (outlook)
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What's included
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