Six years ago, Mauritania and Senegal signed the final decision to invest in the “Turtle/Ahmim Al-Kabir” gas field. The companies "Kosmos" and "BP", which signed the contract to exploit the field, expected that production in it would actually begin at the end of 2021.
But today it was disappointed after the project recorded a clear delay in production by more than two years. The revenues that would have entered the treasury of the Mauritanian state alone from the project were estimated at $100 million annually in the first phase.