VOL. XLVI

No 20

19-May-2003

ALGERIA

CNPC Awarded Adrar/Sbaa Basin Integrated Project

Sonatrach awarded the Adrar/Sbaa basin integrated upstream/downstream project on 13 May to the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), which beat the other pre-qualified bidder, UK-based Petrofac. The project involves the construction of a green-field 20,000 b/d refinery in the southern Adrar region, to be supplied by crude oil and gas from the 40,000 sq km Sbaa basin, which according to Sonatrach has...