British energy company BP is moving ahead with development of a liquefied natural project off the West African coast with early design work, a contractor said. French services company TechnipFMC said it landed a front-end engineering and design contract from BP for work on a floating production storage and offloading unit for the Tortue/Ahmeyim field, home to an LNG project on the maritime border between Mauritania and Senegal. BP secured the agreements necessary to make a final investment decision on the project from the governments of Mauritania and Senegal in February. The governments under the terms of the agreement split the resources and revenues from a field with estimated resources of 15 trillion cubic feet of gas. That’s roughly the equivalent of […]