VOL. XLIV

No 35

27-August-2001

ALGERIA

ABB Wins $93Mn Gas Pipeline Compressor Contract

Zurich-based ABB announced on 13August that it had been awarded a $93mn contract to design and build a gaspipeline compressor station (SC3) in Algeria on the Pedro Duran Farell pipeline(the Maghreb-Europe, or GME, pipeline) to increase capacity from 8bn cu ms/yearto around 11bcm/y.The section of thepipeline on Algerian territory is owned and operated by Sonatrach. ABB will beresponsible for the engineering,...