Region: Senegal

The French Court of Cassation has upheld a US$243 million investment treaty award obtained by a French-Senegalese businessman against Senegal, dismissing the state’s arguments regarding his dual nationality.

25 May 2023

Mauritian investors have brought an ICSID claim against Senegal over a €1 billion power plant project, months after the West African state lost its challenge to a €243 million UNCITRAL award in favour of a dual national.

10 January 2022

Canada’s Barrick Gold has launched an ICC claim against Senegal after it was hit with a US$208 million capital gains tax bill.

05 May 2021

Senegal’s state electricity company has defeated a US$258 million ICC claim by a US supplier over an aborted power plant project.

11 May 2020

Australia's Woodside Petroleum and FAR have settled an ICC arbitration over a stake in a US$4.2 billion oil project in Senegalese waters, after the tribunal issued an award in favour of Woodside last month.

30 March 2020

An ICC tribunal has ruled in favour of Perth-based Woodside Petroleum in a dispute over its purchase of a stake in a US$4.2 billion oil project in Senegalese waters.

14 February 2020

28 January 2020

04 January 2019

African Petroleum has made good on its threat to file an ICSID claim against Senegal over two offshore oil blocks, as three claims it is already pursuing against the Gambia progress in consolidated form.

25 June 2018

CORRECTED. A newly discovered oil field off Senegal’s coast is the focus of a new ICC arbitration between two Australian partners in the project.

20 June 2017