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April 2024

Woodside is due to begin production at its Sangomar project in Senegal in mid-2024.

Fears for $8b Woodside project under Senegal’s new government

The nationalist rhetoric from a new president who has pledged to rework oil production contracts comes just ahead of the start-up of the Sangomar oil project.

  • Angela Macdonald-Smith

February 2020

An artist's impression of the planned Sangomar oil project, which was approved by the Senegal government last month.

FAR loses arbitration over Woodside Senegal oil project

The decision appears to cement Woodside's position in the $US4.2 billion oil project which is under construction off the Senegal coast.

  • Angela Macdonald-Smith

December 2019

The SNE discovery in Senegal was the world's biggest petroleum find in 2014.

Equity raising 'last piece in puzzle' for FAR's Senegal oil project

The share sale is part of a debt and equity funding package put in place by the junior explorer to cover its share of a $US4.2 billion oil project in Senegal.

  • Angela Macdonald-Smith

November 2019

Woodside's gas processing operations near Karratha are set for expansion.

Woodside rethinks on Scarborough as clock ticks

The oil and gas producer has played down the likelihood of any immediate move to bring in another partner to the $US11.4 billion project.

  • Angela Macdonald-Smith

August 2019

Woodside Petroleum chief executive Peter Coleman is far from happy with the state of his oil play in Senegal.

The FAR side of Coleman's Senegal spat

Woodside's $US630 million punt on West African oil might not be quite as challenged as the big driller's CEO wants to present.

  • Matthew Stevens

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