Activities

Discovered in 2001 by the Australian company Woodside, the Chinguetti field was the first oil project in Mauritania. Production at the field began in 2006 and ended in 2017.

The environmental commission monitored the development of the oilfield Chinguetti. The oil field is in the phase of abandonment, and the environmental commission is working with partners to conduct environmental monitoring for this phase. The purpose of this monitoring is to ensure the implementation of the mitigation measures verified in the Chinguetti oilfield abandoned environmental impact report.

The PFNI is a web (Spatial) based portal integration system, which is completely based on the use of open-source tools. Its structure is easy to use, and it provides distributed applications based on the web, map visualization and analysis, Provide geographic data and related metadata through the most common Internet browsers (Google Chrome, Mozilla, Firefox, MAC Safari, Internet Explorer 10 +).

The main objective of PFNI is to integrate, develop and share environmental data for the successful management of the country's marine and coastal areas.

The POLMAR is a plan to deal with accidental pollution of the marine environment, which allows the mobilization and coordination of previously determined response measures.

In 2015, EC mobilized technical and financial resources for the Ministry of fisheries to update the 2002 National POLMAR plan.

The new national POLMAR plan sets out the roles and relationships among the relevant ministries, agencies, or departments, as well as how they conduct business.

Monitoring is a system for monitoring micro-pollutants in marine and coastal environments. Its main objectives are to coordinate the offshore oil sector with fisheries and to protect marine and coastal biodiversity. The EC supports the establishment of a micro pollution monitoring system implemented by the ONISPA-IMROP.

The purpose of this study is to draw lessons, especially in environmental management and monitoring, Chinguetti oilfield development, and other assessment, exploration, or development activities in the country to date.

In the context of the continued increase in Mauritanian offshore industrial activities, it is urgent to identify the current risks associated with such activities.
Based on the expertise of SMHPM in monitoring oil operations, especially the case of Chinguetti, this study proposes a method to identify and assess the offshore risk of Mauritania.

Sponsored by the Environment Commission, it makes it possible to establish an environmental risk register and proposes actions to be incorporated into the new national pollution prevention strategy.

This activity aims to provide a national regulatory framework for the national institutions responsible for monitoring, controlling, and inspecting liquid, gas, and solid emissions and nuisances from oil and gas activities in Mauritania.

The environmental commission monitors all offshore oil and gas activities (seismic campaign, exploration drilling, production, abandonment). It receives regular follow-up reports from the representatives on the platforms of the administrations, which are represented at the EC.

The Environmental Commission and the Mauritanian Coast Guard (GCM) have signed Protocol of Cooperation as part of the operationalization of the national marine pollution control (POLMAR), following the acquisition of software to track oil spills at sea for the benefit of the GCM, accompanied by training on its use.

The main objective of this software is to provide the national operational structures responsible for dueling offshore accidental pollution with an effective means of monitoring and predicting the evolution of these spills, in order to better targets their actions at sea.