Algeria: Third south-western EPC contract awarded

The award by Groupement Reggane of a $970m engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to Petrofac to build the gas-gathering, treatment and export facilities package at the Reggane North development means that a trio of projects are now fully under way in the south-west region, which is the country’s largest new zone for future gas production. Spain’s Técnicas Reunidas is building gas production facilities at Touat for GDF Suez which are scheduled to enter production in late 2016. Both Reggane and Total’s Timmimoun development, which is being built by Korea’s Samsung Engineering, will be completed in mid-2017.