Report : APCL Farm out to TOTAL, page-94

another snippet- At its press conference of 20 September 2016 on oil contracts signed by the State of Senegal, Prime Minister Mouhamed Boun Abdalah DIONNE told us that in 2015, for non-compliance with work commitments, the State of Senegal had canceled three (3) research contracts including that of Frank Timis' African Petroleum (AP) for the Deep Rufisque Bloc. If we follow the logic of the Prime Minister, African Petroleum no longer has a share in the Rufisque Deep Offshore block when the contract that binds it to the PM is broken? So Frank Timis's African Petroleum no longer operates in the Deep Rufisque bloc. How is it possible that a company with whom the state has broken can keep its shares until they are sold?
Unlike the PM, The company African Petroleum maintains that the block of Rufisque Offshore Deep still belongs to him.
It should be remembered that the hydrocarbon production research and sharing agreement between African Petroleum Senegal Limited and Petrosen was signed on October 25, 2011. It was approved by decree n ° 2011-1824 of November 10, 2011 by The President of the Republic Abdoulaye Wade and against signed by Prime Minister Souleymane Ndéné Ndiaye.
In the statement published on the official website of TOTAL (www.total.com) we read that "the first agreement is a hydrocarbon production research and sharing contract on the Rufisque Offshore Bottom block of an area Of 10 357 km2 ... ". In reality, This is the same block and perimeter of the Contract Zone that was awarded to Frank Timis' African Petroleum. Thus, Article 2 of the aforementioned decree states that: 'the perimeter of the Contractual Zone concerned which covers the Deep Offshore Rufisque block, with a total area deemed to be equal to 10 357 km2, is defined by the points of Reference .... ".
The same area was provided for by Decree No. 2011-1808 of 2 November 2011. In the same communique it is mentioned that "The second area is a cooperation agreement with Petrosen and the Ministry of Energy and Renewable Energies of the Republic of Senegal, under which Total will carry out a study of the very deep sea zone, In order to determine the exploration potential and become an operator of an exploration block ". Recolonization in motion.
In simple terms, TOTAL will control all the oil and gas resources of Senegal Offshore through this "deep sea zone study". Better, from the moment it is a study, why the State of Senegal has not launched a call for competition to find the best bidder for the current generation and future? Only the publication of the terms of this second contract can enable us to know whether the other oil giants are definitely excluded from the "Very deep sea zone".

Birahime SECK, Member of the Board of Directors of the Civil Forum. In simple terms, TOTAL will control all the oil and gas resources of Senegal Offshore through this "study of the zone in deep sea". Better, from the moment it is a study, why the State of Senegal has not launched a call for competition to find the best bidder for the current generation and future? Only the publication of the terms of this second contract can enable us to know whether the other oil giants are definitely excluded from the "Very deep sea zone". Birahime SECK, Member of the Board of Directors of the Civil Forum. In simple terms, TOTAL will control all the oil and gas resources of Senegal Offshore through this "study of the zone in deep sea". Better, from the moment it is a study, why the State of Senegal has not launched a call for competition to find the best bidder for the current generation and future? Only the publication of the terms of this second contract can enable us to know whether the other oil giants are definitely excluded from the "Very deep sea zone". Birahime SECK, Member of the Board of Directors of the Civil Forum. Why has the State of Senegal not launched a call for competition to find the best bidder for the present and future generation? Only the publication of the terms of this second contract can enable us to know whether the other oil giants are definitely excluded from the "Very deep sea zone". Birahime SECK, Member of the Board of Directors of the Civil Forum. Why has the State of Senegal not launched a call for competition to find the best bidder for the present and future generation? Only the publication of the terms of this second contract can enable us to know whether the other oil giants are definitely excluded from the "Very deep sea zone". Birahime SECK,
Member of the Board of Directors of the Civil Forum.