Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LII

No 44

2-Nov-2009

ALGERIA

Italys Bonatti Awarded $150Mn El-Merk Pipeline Contract

Algerias state hydrocarbon firm, Sonatrach, and Anadarko of the US have awarded a $149.7mn contract to Italys Bonatti for the construction of three pipelines leading out of the El-Merk field in southeastern Algeria to processing facilities. The 24-month engineering, procurement and construction contract requires a crude oil pipeline to be built from El-Merk to Houd El-Hamra and for...