VOL. XLVII

No 04

26-January-2004

ALGERIA

Sonatrach To Implement Gas Substitution Plan After Skikda Blast Destroys Three LNG Trains

Sonatrach is to implement a gas substitution plan in the wake of the major blast at Skikdas LNG plant on 19 January, aimed at ensuring that LNG customers normally supplied from there receive full volumes of Algerian gas, MEES learns. But in the longer term, the Skikda accident will unavoidably peg back Algerian hydrocarbon revenues in the next few years and has put a...