Mauritania hopes to agree a business plan for BP's BirAllah offshore gas field in two to three years' time, Energy Minister Abdessalam Ould Mohamed Saleh said at a conference in Dakar on Thursday.
Speaking earlier at the same conference, BP Executive Vice-President for Production and Operations Gordon Birrell said it was working with the Mauritanian government on the most attractive development path for the field.
(Reporting by Bate Felix/Writing by Alessandra Prentice; Editing by Kirsten Donovan)