VOL. XXXIV

NO. 48

2-SEPTEMBER-1991

Algeria Gears Up For New Oil And Gas Ventures

MEES Editor Ian Seymour recently visited Algeria where he interviewed anumber of the country's top officials, including Prime Minister Sid Ahmed Ghozali, Energy Minister Nordine Ait-Laoussine, and Sonatrach Director GeneralAbdelhak Bouhafs. The texts of these interviews are published on pages D1-12.The following is Seymour's summing up of Algeria's ambitious oil and gasobjectives:

In terms of crude oil production...