VOL. XLIV

No 45

5-November-2001

ALGERIA

SpanishPower Firms, BP And Shell Win Algerian Gas Auction

SixSpanish companies - four power utilities and BP and Shell痴 local affiliates -have won the right to import and distribute Algerian gas for three years in theauction of 4.2BCM, or 1.4BCM/year, of gas previously imported and distributedby Gas Natural unit Enagas. Enagas had been ordered to divest 25% of itsAlgerian supplies from Sonatrach as part of the process of opening Spain痴 gassector to full...