BP says FPSO for Greater Tortue gas project due in Senegal by end-2022

DAKAR, Dec 17 (Reuters) - BP's floating, production,
storage, and offloading vessel (FPSO) for the Greater Tortue
Ahmeyim gas project offshore West Africa is expected in Senegal
waters for commissioning and testing by the end of 2022, a
company executive said on Friday.

The FPSO for the project, which straddles Senegal and
Mauritania, is being build in China by France's Technip Energies
.

Massaer Cisse, BP's vice-president and Senegal country
director, told an oil conference in Dakar that the FPSO will be
in Senegalese waters by the end of 2022.

The FPSO is 83% complete and will be connected to the field
for testing in early 2023 before being delivered to the operator
in mid-June 2023, Franck Pliya, Senegal country director for
Technip Energies, told the conference.

Project operator BP bought the FPSO from project partner
Kosmos in a deal concluded in August, Kosmos said at the
time.

First gas from the project is expected by the end of 2023.
(Reporting by Bate Felix; editing by Jason Neely)