The Egyptian group Madkour Holding Group and the Egyptian-UAE firm GoGas have signed a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) to jointly develop a CCGT power plant in Nouakchott, Mauritania. The first phase (200 MW) is expected to be commissioned by the end of 2028 and a second phase will later raise its capacity to 365 MW. The project will be fuelled by gas from the offshore Banda Tevet field, currently under development by GoGas.
Mauritania's natural gas resources were estimated at 1,100 bcm in 2023, including the Hmeimin field on the maritime border with Senegal (450 bcm), which comprise the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) project, as well as the Birallah and Banda fields (226 bcm and 34 bcm respectively), located 60 km offshore Nouakchott. BP started producing gas at the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) natural gas field in 2024, which has more than 700 bcm of gas reserves; since April 2025, all the gas produced is liquefied for exports through a 2.7 Mt/year floating LNG unit. In 2021, New Fortress Energy (NFE) signed a non-binding agreement with the government for the development of Somelec's 120 MW Nouakchott-8 CCGT project.
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