VOL. XLIV

No. 06

5-February-2001

ALGERIA

AlgeriaDetails Plans For Hydrocarbons Sector Reform

MEESsDavid Knott reports on the CWC Group conference on: Emerging InvestmentOpportunities in Algerias Energy and Mining Sectors, held in Algiers on 30-31January.

Thisyear Algeria hopes to put in place a new hydrocarbons law, currently at thedraft stage, which will boost investment in the countrys upstream anddownstream oil and gas industry. Chakib Khelil, Algerias Minister of Energyand Mines, told the...