Jan 9 (Reuters) - Senegal has authorised the West African country's first oil development, the $4.2 billion Sangomar offshore oil project, operator Woodside Petroleum WPL.AX said on Thursday.
The government also approved a proposed plan for the exploitation of oil at three offshore joint venture projects - Rufisque Offshore, Sangomar Offshore and Sangomar Deep Offshore, Woodside said.
The three offshore projects are joint ventures between Woodside Energy, Cairn Energy PLC CNE.L , FAR Ltd FAR.AX and Petrosen.