VOL. XXXIX

No. 56

21-October-1996

ALGERIA

Enel Starts Importing Algerian Gas Via Expanded Transmed Pipeline

Algeria's Sonatrach started earlier this month delivering natural gas to Italy's state-owned power company Enel in accordance with an agreement signed between the two parties in late 1993 for a 20-year period. The gas supply, to be delivered through the newly expanded Transmed pipeline, will amount to around 2bn cu. ms. in 1997 rising to 4bn cu. ms. in 1998. The Transmed pipeline...