VOL. XXXVI

NO. 26

29-MARCH-1993

ALGERIA

Portugal Still Committed to Purchase Algerian Gas Despite Failure of Talkswith Natgas

Portugal will go ahead with its plans to use natural gas for its powerindustry and to purchase Algerian gas for this purpose despite the fact thattalks with the Natgas consortium to build the country's first LNG terminal havebroken down. Mr. Fortunato Baptista, Assistant to the Secretary of State forEnergy, told the French daily Le Monde on 22 March that the Natgas...