VOL. XLI

No. 09

2-March-1998

ALGERIA

Italy's Nuovo Pignone To Supply Turbocompressors To GR Gas Pipeline system

Nuovo Pignone, the Italian-based affiliate of General Electric, has been awarded anapproximately $90mn contract to supply 10 turbocompressors for Sonatrach's 964-km.,42/48-inch GR2 natural gas pipeline system that runs from Alrar in the southeastern partof Algeria to Hassi R'Mel, the country's main gas gathering complex.

The 10bn cu. ms./year (BCM/y) GR2 pipeline consists of two...