July 1 (LNGJ) - Sonatrach, the Algerian state energy company and operator of two LNG export plants on the North African coast, signed its acceptance of the Touat gas project in southwest Algeria being passed to Groupement Touat Gaz (GTG), a joint venture between Sonatrach and Neptune Energy of the UK.
Operation of the facility had previously been in the hands of the project contractor, Spain’s Técnicas Reunidas, since the first gas was sent into the Algerian domestic gas pipeline network in September 2019. The Touat facility is located around 1,400 kilometres southwest of Algiers in the Sahara Desert and comprises 19 natural gas development wells, a gas treatment plant for gas and stabilised condensate with a gathering network with pipelines.
