"Senegal calls on American Halliburton to extinguish burning gas well", 1 January 2021

A fire broke out on December 19 at the Dieleuk Peul site following a natural gas eruption during a drilling operation in the Ngadiaga area, an onshore platform in the Thiès region (west ). The well continued to burn on Thursday and calls for several days have come from local authorities and villagers to contain and put out the fire. The Senegalese authorities claim to have secured the site surrounded by several villages.

“ It is the American company Halliburton which was selected” to neutralize the fire, affirmed the company of the Petroleum of Senegal (Petrosen, public) and the American company Forteza, in a joint statement...

The two companies jointly operate the Ngadiaga gas field, according to a Petrosen official...“The main equipment needed for these operations will arrive in Dakar on Friday, January 1, and work to extinguish the fire and restore the site will start on Saturday, January 2,” the statement said. The duration of the operations was not indicated.

The Ngadiaga gas field consists of 11 wells. The production of 30,000 cubic meters per day is entirely purchased by Sococim, a cement plant near Dakar, where it is transported over 36 km by pipelines, according to the manager of Petrosen. Ngadiaga’s onshore gas, discovered in 1993, is different from the offshore gas discovered in recent years at the Senegal / Mauritania border, which these two countries have agreed to jointly exploit soon.