BP has found high quality natural gas reservoirs in all three wells it has recently drilled offshore Senegal and Mauritania in West Africa, the UK oil and gas supermajor said on Monday. In recent months, BP and its partner Kosmos Energy have drilled three appraisal wells offshore Mauritania and Senegal and found gas in all nine zones. At the end of October, Kosmos Energy announced a major gas discovery in the Orca-1 appraisal well offshore Mauritania in the BirAllah area, continuing the 100-percent success rate from nine wells targeting the inboard gas trend in Mauritania and Senegal. According to independent energy research firm Rystad Energy , Orca-1 was the deepest and largest discovery this year. Orca-1 holds around 1.3 billion barrels of oil equivalent (boe) of recoverable resources, according to Palzor Shenga, a senior analyst on Rystad Energy’s upstream team. “This type of significant discovery, along with the projects […]