The government announced on Wednesday that it had adopted several legislative and regulatory texts in the gas sector in view of the upcoming production of GTA gas off the Senegalese-Mauritanian coast with the operator Bp.
The purpose of these decrees is to apply the Law of 7 February 2020 on the Gas Code. They consist of three draft decrees:
- The draft decree fixing the conditions and modalities of exercise of the activities of the intermediate and downstream segments of the gas sector
According to Article 2 of the Gas Code, it regulates the activities, on the national territory, of the intermediate and downstream segments of the gas sector which include
- the aggregation, processing, storage, import, export, re-export and supply of natural gas in gaseous or liquid form;
- transmission and distribution of natural gas through pipelines ;
- transport and distribution of liquefied natural gas ;
- the transport and distribution of compressed natural gas.
The activities of importing, refining, storing, transporting and distributing hydrocarbons remain governed by the regulations in force in this area.
- The draft decree setting out the conditions for connection to the gas system and the conditions for third party access to transformation, transport and storage infrastructures;
The conditions are available in the points of article 3 of the Gas Code
- The draft decree fixing the modalities of determination, revision and monitoring of the implementation of the tariffs for the use of gas infrastructures and the transfer price of natural gas from local production;
The conditions are available in articles 48, 51, 56, 57, 58, 59 of the Gas Code