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Spotlight | Mauritania, Senegal
BP narrowly avoids fresh crisis with Dakar and Nouakchott over Grand Tortue

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BP regional director Gordon Birrell in Baku, Azerbaijan, in June 2016.
BP regional director Gordon Birrell in Baku, Azerbaijan, in June 2016. © Aziz Karimov/Pacific Press/Alamy

On a visit to Nouakchott and Dakar, BP's Gordon Birrell managed to ease some of the tensions surrounding the Grand Tortue Ahmeyim gas project. These included Petrosen's refusal to validate cash calls.

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