Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVIII

No 16

18-April-2005

MAURITANIA

Woodside Forms Panel To Study Mauritania LNG Options

Australias Woodside Petroleum has formed a business group to study options for the development of an LNG liquefaction plant in Mauritania that it would own and operate, MEES learns. The company is considering LNG despite the fact that latest gas reserve estimates suggest there is not sufficient scope for a commercial LNG operation at this time. Woodside operates the PSC A and...