Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LII

No 25

22-Jun-2009

ALGERIA

SNC-Lavalin Wins $1.1Bn Rhourde Nouss Gas Processing Contract

Canadas SNC-Lavalin signed a 785.5mn ($1.1bn) contract with Algerian state energy firm Sonatrach on 13 June, to install gas processing facilities and raise production at the Rhourde Nouss fields in southeast Algeria. The contract was awarded just one week after Japans JGC signed a similar contract to develop the Gassi Touil fields nearby, and is part of a major new push to...