CHINGUETTI, Mauritania (AP) — For centuries, poets, scholars and theologians have flocked to Chinguetti, a trans-Saharan trading post home to more than a dozen libraries containing thousands of ...

Perth-based Woodside Petroleum has cut its reserves estimate for the problematic $709 million Chinguetti oilfield project, off Mauritania, by about 57% to 53 million barrels of oil. This is almost ...

Chinguetti, a sacred site, faces climate change and heritage loss. Chinguetti, a historic and sacred site in Islam, holds immense cultural value with ancient manuscripts preserving knowledge in ...

Chingueṭṭi (Mauritania) (AFP) – Saif el Islam al Ahmed Mahmoud sat cross-legged on a sheepskin and gingerly turned the pages of an ancient manuscript. "What would the world be without poetry?" he ...

Chief executive John Doran said until the results of the well are known "it is premature to consider Chinguetti as a definite commercial development". He said: "On balance Chinguetti is expected to ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Woodside Petroleum, Australia's second-biggest oil and gas company, said the Government of Mauritania ...

Ancient Egyptians believed the Sahara to be the Land of the Dead, and the sunset side of the desert was where one’s soul would find its final dwelling for the afterlife. It is no coincidence that the ...

The Petronas-led consortium that operates Mauritania’s offshore Chinguetti oil field has succeeded in raising output there to more than 17,000 b/d, reversing a sharp decline that the country’s only ...

Desert settlement of Chinguetti faces rising sands, dwindling tourism and insecurity due to conflict in neighbouring Mali On a recent afternoon, 67-year-old Saif Islam made his way into the courtyard ...

Production from Woodside Energy Ltd.'s Chinguetti oil field off Mauritania has fallen 40% since the field came on stream in February (OGJ, Mar. 6, 2006, Newsletter). MELBOURNE, May 17-- Production ...