- BP signs an agreement with Mauritania for green hydrogen exploration.
- The agreement was signed at COP 27.
The British oil company bp intends to invest in Mauritania’s developing green hydrogen sector and its derivatives in addition to exploiting fossil resources. Senior executives of the firm signed a contract with the Mauritanian government to investigate the prospect of investing in Mauritania while attending the 27th Conference of the Parties on Climate Change (COP27) in Sharm el-Sheikh.
The Mauritanian Minister of Petroleum, Mines, and Energy, Abdessalam Ould Mohamed Saleh, and the Head of State, Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani, were present. According to the agreement, the oil business with headquarters in London will research the economic and technological viability of manufacturing green hydrogen in Mauritania.
This is CWP Global’s situation. With a clear goal in mind—to build a production capacity of 1.7 million tonnes of green hydrogen or 10 million tonnes of green ammonia annually for domestic and international use—the energy group with headquarters in Newcastle, Australia, has arrived in Mauritania. The business, run by Mark Crandall, plans to build 30 GW of power-producing capacity to do this.
To develop the Nour initiative, the British business Chariot has partnered with Total Eren, a division of the French oil firm TotalEnergies. The project entails the development of 10 GW-capacity solar and wind farms in the Mauritanian desert. Electrolysis will be used to turn this green electricity into green hydrogen. Chariot has acquired a 14,400 km2 block of land from the Mauritanian government to carry out its project, on which pre-feasibility and feasibility studies will be carried out.