Renégociation de contrats : Le PM annonce une vague de résiliations de concessions de plusieurs blocs pétroliers
The Senegalese government has made a major move in its energy sovereignty strategy. Between the promise of rapid growth and the reality of the state's stake in oil and gas fields, Ousmane Sonko and his team of ministers had to play their part in renegotiating certain contracts deemed "unfair."
In addition to the tax adjustment of the cement sector announced during the press briefing on Thursday, March 12, 2026, the head of government revealed a series of terminations of oil and gas contracts, thus marking a clear break with the management of our natural resources under the Macky Sall era.
Under the leadership of the Ministry of Energy and the general management of Petrosen, several strategic contracts have already been purely and simply cancelled, the PM reports.
“Since we’ve been here, we’ve had to terminate contracts concerning quite a few oil blocks. We’ve terminated the Diender block, the Djiffere block. We’ll take back the Kayar deep offshore block in a few days: it’s the Kayar block, the Kayar shallow offshore block, the Saint-Louis shallow offshore block, the Rufisque offshore block… All these blocks have been terminated since we’ve been here,” he revealed.
These decisions are part of an approach aimed at ensuring a more advantageous exploitation of national resources.
Speaking to journalists, the Head of Government stressed the need to "resize the blocs".
“We are also discussing the resizing of the blocks. I said it when we were in opposition, the perimeters were too vast and too large. This does not conform to international standards,” he said.
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