Kosmos Hopes for Oil After Big Mauritania Gas Find

摘要

Kosmos Energy says its Tortue West discovery in Mauritania has the potential to become the largest gas find offshore West Africa, but the US-based independent is still holding out hope it will discover oil from future drilling in the region. Kosmos on Monday revealed more information about its Tortue West discovery, which was announced in late April and trumpeted as a "play opening" event (IOD Apr.28'15). The company said its preliminary view of the gross resource base at the discovery is 5 trillion-12 trillion cubic feet, with a mean estimate of 8 Tcf.