ALGERIA

Ruhrgas Plans to Import Algerian LNG

West Germany's leading gas importer, Ruhrgas, is looking to Algerian liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a long-term means of diversifying its sources of supply, according to its Chairman, Dr. Klaus Liesen. Dr. Liesen said in Essen on 12 June that plans to import LNG had been drawn up "with the view to long-term diversification of Ruhrgas' gas supplies, mainly after the year 2000." However he stressed that Ruhrgas - which bought...