Imminent arbitration against Woodside unlikely to affect FAR’s fundraising for Sangomar

Listed on the Sydney stock exchange, the junior oil company will raise more than half a billion dollars in capital and debt to finance its share in the Senegalese offshore project led by the Woodside group with which it is in dispute.

16/12/2019 at 16h12, by Pierre-Olivier Rouaud

The Perth-based independent oil company FAR Ltd is turning to the markets, for capital, and banks, for debt, to finance its 13.67% share in Senegal’s largest project, Sangomar (formerly SNE). The country’s first offshore exploration project is located at the southern point of the Petite Cote, 100 kilometres south of Dakar.

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