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Algeria’s fuel imports surge despite being an OPEC producer

Algeria, long presented as an oil powerhouse, imported more than one million tons of diesel in 2025 despite repeated presidential pledges of fuel self-sufficiency, according to Sonatrach’s latest annual report. In April 2025, President Abdelmadjid Tebboune declared in Bechar that “next year, Algeria will not import a single drop of gasoil.” Yet the company’s 2025 […]