VOL. XXXVI

NO. 10

7-DECEMBER-1992

ALGERIA

Foreign Investment Expected to Boost Algeria's Oil and Gas Export Capacity

Algeria's campaign to attract foreign investment in the oil and gas sectors -backed by the amendments to the 1986 hydrocarbons law passed in late 1991 (MEES,11 November and 9 December 1991) - could result in the recovery of an additional150mn tons (approximately 1.2bn barrels) of crude over the next 20 years, andpermit gas exports to rise to as much as 75bn cubic meters annually in...