SMH is the Société Mauritanienne des Hydrocarbures (SMH) / the Mauritanian Company of Hydrocarbons. It undertakes all activities pertaining to oil and gas: exploration, evaluation, development, production, storage , transportation, treatment, refinery, transformation, marketing, exportation, importation, distribution raw conditioned or refined Hydrocarbons , as well as their derived.

SMH also constructs, exploits and manages all infrastructures related to Hydrocarbons or to their transformation and contributes to secure the supply of national market in oil and gas products.