Report : APCL Farm out to TOTAL, page-77

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The clouds are starting to dissipate on the resignation or dismissal of the Minister of Energy and Sustainable Energy Development. Indeed, Thierno Alassane Sall would have refused to sign their contracts binding Senegal to the Total group, to the detriment of Kosmos. There is political companionship on one side and the state on another. Let it be the last time I give you instructions that you do not apply. " It was by these words reported by Libération that the head of state Macky Sall had warned his Minister of Energy Thierno Alassane Sall before his refusal to endorse the memorandum of understanding with the Total group.  But Thierno Alassane Sall clinging to his position, the head of state eventually took the stick to sanction him by dismissing him from his post as head of the energy department. And the same source said the departure would be precipitated by the urgency of signing the two agreements because the Chairman and CEO of the French group who came specifically to Dakar to sign the documents could not return empty-handed.  At nine o'clock in the evening, at the Palais de la Republique, he was summoned to sign the agreement granting Total the Rufisque Offshore Profond block, covering an area of 10,357 km2, and another document on the collaboration between Total and Petrosen for To study the seismic lines that could enable Total to obtain a license for 10,000 km2.  Finally, the agreements were signed in the afternoon by Prime Minister Mahammed Boun Abdallah Dionne who is acting in the Ministry of Energy and Development of renewable energies, while the incumbent in this position was thanked.