VOL. XLIII

No. 50

11-December-2000

ALGERIA

Russian Firm Wins Pipeline Contract

Stroitransgas of Russia has been awarded an $80mn contract to build a 403km section of an 822km oil pipeline that is to link the Haoud el-Hamra farm tanks with the Arzew export oil terminal on the Mediterranean coast. The order for the first 419km section, worth around $83mn, was placed with a consortium comprising Algerias state-owned Sonatrach, state engineering constructor Cosider and the Algerian affiliate of the US...