Country
Mauritania: LNG infrastructure
Mauritania has 3 LNG terminals and 1 tracked gas pipeline in the Global Energy Monitor tracker. It is a net exporter, with 2.4 Mtpa of operating liquefaction capacity and no operating import capacity.
Export capacity
2.4 Mtpa
operating liquefaction
Import capacity
—
no import terminal tracked
Pipelines
1
5,660 km tracked
Fleet
0
0 owned from here (flag not reported this release)
Import and export balance
| Direction | Terminals | Operating | Under construction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Export (liquefaction) | 3 | 2.4 | — |
| Import (regasification) | 0 | — | — |
Figures are whole-terminal capacities in Mtpa, not adjusted for ownership stakes or utilisation.
LNG terminals in Mauritania
| Import / export | Type | Units | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BirAllah LNG Hub | Export | Not reported | Proposed | 10 Mtpaproposed | 1 | — |
| Greater Tortue Ahmeyim FLNG Terminal | Export | FLNG | Operating | 2.4 Mtpa | 2 | 2025 |
| New Fortress Banda LNG Terminal | Export | Not reported | Cancelled | Not reported | 1 | — |
Gas pipelines crossing Mauritania
Any pipeline whose country list includes this country, including transit pipelines that only pass through.
| Countries | Segments | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline | Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gambia, Senegal, Mauritania, Morocco, Spain | Proposed | 5,660 km | 30 bcm/y | 1 | 2046 |
Chokepoint exposure
Chokepoint exposure is shown on each terminal page, taken from a hand-maintained trade-lane table. It is an editorial routing model of typical laden voyages, not vessel tracking. The exposure feed aggregates it by chokepoint.
Neighbouring countries
Countries that share a land border with this one and have tracked LNG infrastructure.
More countries in Africa
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In our rankings
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