VOL. XLIII

No. 42

16-OCTOBER-2000

ALGERIA

First Gas From BPs In Amenas Project Delayed Until 2003

MEES learns that start-up of BP's $900mn In Amenas gas/condensate development project in southeast Algeria will be delayed by about a year. We expect the gas will be on stream towards the end of 2003, BP External Affairs Manager Barry Halton told MEES, adding that first gas had originally been expected by the end of 2002. Mr Halton explained that the delay is due to additional front-end engineering...