Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVIII

No 44

31-October-2005

ALGERIA

Construction Of Skikda Replacement LNG Train Begins

Sonatrach on 25 October said that construction work on the replacement LNG train at Skikda had started. The new 4.5mn tons/year project is being carried out by Kellogg Brown & Root of the US and is scheduled to be operational by 2009, replacing three LNG trains that were destroyed in an explosion and fire in January 2004 killing 23 people (MEES, 26 January 2004). The old...