The British giant, British Petroleum (BP) has acquired a platform for production, storage and offloading (FPSO) from the company TechnipFMC, reported Monday, April 16.
The purchase of this FPSO unit is part of the gas exploitation of block C 8, located off the coast of Mauritania and Senegal.
This acquisition comes in a context where a probable sale of BP’s shares on this site has been widely mentioned by the local Mauritanian press.
It should be noted that the TechnipFMC company, whose French government owns 4% of shares, was created in 2017. The structure is the result of the merger between FMC Technologies in the United States and Technip in France.
Listed in the world’s leading stock indexes, S & P 500, CAC 40, NYSE and Euronext, the company is present in 48 countries.
It should also be noted that BP holds 60% of the stake in this site.
