Sydney-Australia's Woodside Petroleum has received assurances from the military leadership in Mauritania,where the company is developing the Chinguetti offshore oil field,that its operations would continue unhindered,CEO Don Voelte said Aug 8(ON 8/5).Voelte told a briefing the situation in the West African nation was calm and Woodside's activities were continuing as planned.Mauritania's President Maaouiya Ould Taya was ousted in a bloodless coup on Aug 3.On Aug 7,Colonel Ely Ould Mohamed Vail,who led the coup and now heads the Military Council for Justice and Democracy in power,named Sidy Mohamed Ould Boubacar as the country's new transitional prime minister in a move seen as the first step toward a promised transition to full democracy within two years.
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