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Mauritania becomes Africa's newest oil producer

Friday, February 24, 2006 Posted: 2019 GMT (0419 HKT)



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Manage Alerts | What Is This? NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP) -- The northwest African nation of Mauritania became Africa's newest oil producer on Friday, pumping crude from an offshore platform for the first time.

Production started at the Chinguetti oil field, 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of the capital, Nouakchott, in the Atlantic Ocean, said Aboubakr Ould Marouani, director of the state-run Mauritanian Hydrocarbon Company, which is charged with overseeing oil sales.

The desert nation is expected to produce 75,000 barrels daily for nine years from Chinguetti, which is operated by Woodside Energy of Australia.