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GasEntec to Deliver Landmark Dakar LNG Terminal Supporting Senegal’s Energy Transition

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GasEntec to Deliver Landmark Dakar LNG Terminal Supporting Senegal’s Energy Transition
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GasEntec to Deliver Landmark Dakar LNG Terminal Supporting Senegal’s Energy Transition

2026-04-21 16:32 Last Updated At:16:40

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 21, 2026--

GasEntec, the global LNG technology and assets company, along with affiliates, has announced today that it has entered into contracts with ELTON Logistics & Services to deliver a jetty-based LNG regasification unit (JRU) and associated onshore LNG equipment for the Dakar LNG Terminal in Dakar, Senegal.

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The new LNG terminal will become West Africa’s flagship LNG import facility, supplying natural gas to a 300MW combined-cycle power plant in Cap des Biches, Dakar – Senegal’s largest power plant – as well as several other power plants, industrial customers, and various additional users. The project supports Senegal’s continued energy transition as the country diversifies its fuel sources while enabling economic and industrial growth.

The project was awarded under a mandate to address urgent national power-sector requirements. GasEntec expects first gas on an expedited basis, with full terminal operations targeted for the first half of 2027.

“This terminal represents a momentous step in strengthening Senegal’s energy security and supporting the nation’s accelerating industrial growth,” said Babacar Tall, CEO of ELTON Logistics & Services. “We are thrilled to work with GasEntec, which brings its global credentials in LNG regasification technology and development.”

Arieh Mimran, Chairman of GasEntec, said, “We are honored to support Senegal’s energy transition. The Dakar LNG Terminal symbolizes an unprecedented effort toward the country's rapid development. It is a privilege to oversee GasEntec as it provides critical assets for this great nation's sovereignty.”

Joongin Ko, Chief Project Officer at GasEntec, added, “ELTON Logistics & Services’ use of GasEntec’s proprietary technology and modular approach to downstream LNG at the Dakar LNG Terminal highlights our flexible and fast deployment along with our ability to meet the most exacting parameters.”

Founded in South Korea, GasEntec has delivered major LNG infrastructure across Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas, serving sovereign, utility, and industrial clients.

About GasEntec

GasEntec is an energy technology platform delivering fast, modular LNG infrastructure essential to meet accelerating global demand for digital infrastructure, AI expansion, flexible baseload fuels, and sovereign energy security.

Its dual-engine model combines a technology business built on credentialed modular LNG intellectual property with a scalable asset platform that sells, leases, or charters integrated LNG solutions.

GasEntec’s modular floating and onshore LNG systems enable rapid, scalable deployment of downstream LNG infrastructure, providing clients with integrated solutions to distribute LNG to and within critical markets.

Founded in 2006 in South Korea, GasEntec has become a key provider of modular LNG infrastructure and equipment supporting global LNG logistics and regasification.

About ELTON Logistics & Services

ELTON Logistics and Services is a West African energy infrastructure company based in Dakar, Senegal. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of ELTON Oil Company, Senegal’s leading fuel distribution company, which has played a key role over the past 26 years in supplying oil products for power generation. ELTON Oil Company also operates in Guinea-Conakry, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, and Côte d’Ivoire.

For more information, please visit www.gasentec.com.

GasEntec to Deliver Landmark Dakar LNG Terminal Supporting Senegal’s Energy Transition

GasEntec to Deliver Landmark Dakar LNG Terminal Supporting Senegal’s Energy Transition

LONDON (AP) — The ex-civil servant behind the decision to approve Peter Mandelson’s appointment as British ambassador to Washington says he felt political pressure to rush through the appointment despite security concerns.

Olly Robbins, former head of the Foreign Office, said those concerns did not relate to Mandelson's relationship with the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. He declined to say when questioned by lawmakers what led the government's vetting agency to flag Mandelson as a potential security risk.

Robbins said the vetting agency considered Mandelson a “borderline case” and was “leaning toward recommending against” giving him security clearance to be British ambassador to Washington.

The Foreign Office decided to clear him anyway. Robbins was fired by Prime Minister Keir Starmer last week over the decision.

Robbins told the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday that there was an “atmosphere of pressure” coming from Starmer’s office.

He said there was “a very, very strong expectation” that Mandelson “needed to be in post and in America as quickly as possible.”

Starmer is facing calls to resign over the revelation that Mandelson was given the crucial diplomatic post despite failing security checks.

Robbins said there was “a generally dismissive attitude” to the security vetting in January 2025, before Mandelson went to Washington.

The prime minister says he made the wrong judgment when he picked Jeffrey Epstein ’s friend Mandelson for the job. But he said he would have withdrawn the appointment if he’d known about the security vetting.

Starmer has placed blame squarely on Foreign Office officials, who he said failed to tell him about the security concerns and approved Mandelson’s appointment despite them.

He called it “frankly staggering” that officials didn’t tell him about the failed vetting, which took place in January 2025. Starmer says he only found out last week.

Starmer fired Mandelson in September, nine months into the job, when new details emerged about his friendship with Epstein, a convicted sex offender who died in prison in 2019.

FILE - Olly Robbins walks on Whitehall in Westminster, London, Jan. 17, 2019. (Dominic Lipinski/PA via AP, File)

FILE - Olly Robbins walks on Whitehall in Westminster, London, Jan. 17, 2019. (Dominic Lipinski/PA via AP, File)

Peter Mandelson is seen with his dog outside his home in London, Monday, April 20, 2026 as Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer is facing a showdown in Parliament over the appointment of Peter Mandelson as ambassador to Washington.(AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Peter Mandelson is seen with his dog outside his home in London, Monday, April 20, 2026 as Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer is facing a showdown in Parliament over the appointment of Peter Mandelson as ambassador to Washington.(AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer leaves 10 Downing Street in London, Monday, April 20, 2026 to face a showdown in Parliament over the appointment of Peter Mandelson as ambassador to Washington.(AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer leaves 10 Downing Street in London, Monday, April 20, 2026 to face a showdown in Parliament over the appointment of Peter Mandelson as ambassador to Washington.(AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

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