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Total Eren joins Chariot in developing Mautiania’s flagship green hydrogen project

MoU signing for Project Nour between Chariot CEO Adonis Pouroulis and Mauritanian Minister of Petroleum, Mines & Energy H.E. Abdessalam Oul Mohamed Saleh (27 September 2021). Photo: Chariot

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Total Eren and Chariot Ltd have announced the launch of feasility studies to do-develop Project Nour, a large-scale green hydrogen project in Mauritania.

In September 2021, Chariot had already signed an MoU with the Mauritanian Ministry of Petroleum, Mines & Energy to progress the venture. The agreement notably gave Project Nour exclusivity over 14,400km2 of onshore and offshore area where pre-feasibility and feasibility studies would be conducted to generate solar and wind power used in electrolysis to split water and produce green hydrogen and oxygen.

Project Nour has been given exclusivity over 14,400km2 of onshore and offshore area to produce solar and wind energy.

The new 50:50 partnership between Total Eren and Chariot will pool additional resources into the project’s feasibility, with a view of developing up to 10 GW in Mauritania.

Total Eren already work together on several clean energy projects in Africa, under a long-term joint-development partnership signed in November 2021.

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