VOL. XLIII

No. 43

23-OCTOBER-2000

ALGERIA

Sonatrach Records Bumper Revenues For 1H 2000, Predicts $20bn Total By End 2000

Algerias state-owned Sonatrach has earned $10.168bn in hydrocarbon export revenues in the first half of 2000, an increase of 111% over earnings in the same period of 1999, and expects the figure to increase to $20bn by the end of the year, company chairman Abdelhak Bouhafs announced in Algiers on 16 October. Mr Bouhafs attributed the increase to higher production and prices,...