LONDON—Africa-focused oil and gas explorer Tullow Oil PLC said Wednesday that promising results from an offshore exploration well in Mauritania had opened up a new oil play in the region.

Mauritania is establishing itself as a new oil and gas province and is building a reputation as an emerging deepwater play, the Edinburgh-based Wood Mackenzie said. HOUSTON, Mar. 1-- Mauritania is ...

Mauritanian leaders and Australia's Woodside Petroleum have still to reach agreement over contracts, a fortnight before an oil production deal starts. In 2004 Woodside agreed to invest A$8370m ($600m) ...

Production at Mauritania's Chinguetti oil field has slipped to 35,000 barrels a day, lower than the forecast output, said Premier Oil Plc, one of the project's partners. The field, operated by ...

said the Fregate well opened “a new oil play” off Mauritania. The Fregate-1 well discovered about 30 meters (98 feet) of net gas condensate and oil accumulation after drilling to a depth of ...

South African Muslims protest cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad, and new oil resources are discovered in Mauritania. In this week's Africa Update, we learn how Muslims in South Africa are ...

The USA's strategic interests in Mauritania is quite clear: Oil and TWAT (the war against terrorism). As the US diversifies its energy dependency away from its volatile puppet regimes in the ...

Mauritania has been an ally of the United States, and it has significant oil reserves. The officers who took power say a military junta will rule for up to two years. During this time, they say ...

NOUAKCHOTT, March 13 (Reuters) - Mauritania has laid solid and transparent foundations to expand its nascent oil sector, despite an early hiccup last year in output by Africa's newest crude ...

NOUAKCHOTT, June 19 (Reuters) - South Africa is interested in exploiting oil reserves in new producer Mauritania and will open an embassy this year in the West African country to step up bilateral ...