Tag: SONATRACH

Algeria: Sonatrach reveals $90 billion investment, Shale gas production set for 2022

December 8, 2014

Chief Executive Officer of state-owned Sonatrach, Said Sahnoun, asserted that their five-year investment plan will go ahead despite plummeting oil prices. Addressing the ninth North ... Read More

Algeria : Sonatrach to pump $100billion to boost production

July 21, 2014

Sonatrach, a state owned energy group, has renewed its efforts towards increasing its production levels in oil and gas with the approval of a $100billion ... Read More

Is Algeria Heading towards Economic & Political Crisis ?

March 5, 2014

As Algeria braces for another controversial presidential elections scheduled for next month with incumbent President Abdelaziz Bouteflika running for a fourth term, the country’s economic ... Read More

Algeria prefers Asia to Europe

March 4, 2014

Algeria could be on the verge of reviewing its gas export policy to Europe due to the rising domestic demand. Sonatrach, a state owned company, ... Read More

Algeria: oil and gas investments under uncertainty

January 22, 2013

Following the hostage situation in Algeria, analysts fear that oil and gas future investments are dominated by uncertainty due to fears that investors will be ... Read More

Algeria Hostage Crisis: Over 40 Foreign Workers Captured by Al-Qaeda

January 17, 2013

As many as 41 people - including American, British, French, Japanese, Norwegian, Irish and Austrian nationals - are being held hostage by armed Islamist militants ... Read More

AQIM Avenges Foreign Intervention in Mali with Abductions in Algeria

January 16, 2013

At least eight foreigners, including Britons, Norwegian and Japanese nationals were seized Wednesday in Algeria by Islamist militants in an attack on an oil facility ... Read More

Algeria: Sonatrach and Fenosa finalise deal

January 9, 2013

Companies from the two sides of the Mediterranean have agreed to pen a deal valid for almost two decades. Spain's Gas Natural Fenosa was a ... Read More

Algeria-Europe gas pipeline postponed again

January 3, 2013

The desire to channel natural gas to European countries from Algeria has suffered another setback because the date of the rendezvous between parties to make ... Read More

Algeria’s gas shipment arrives in Egypt

November 19, 2012

Reports from Algeria claim that Egypt has received in the last few days a 53,000 tons shipment of gas from Algeria in a move to ... Read More