LNG

The European Union’s Commissioner for Energy Kadri Simson is in Algeria for two days of talks on strengthening the EU’s energy cooperation with the Algerians after the failure of an EU summit last week to agree a natural gas price cap that would have affected LNG trading.

Algerian state energy company Sonatrach, one of the main suppliers of LNG and pipeline natural gas to Europe, said it planned to increase production and sales in the coming year amid upgrades at its liquefaction plants at Skikda and Arzew on the Mediterranean coast and new natural gas discoveries for export in the future alongside industrial development in petrochemicals.

Italian energy company Eni and Sonatrach, the Algerian state-run company and LNG producer, have completed the construction of the natural gas pipeline connecting the Bir Rebaa Nord and Menzel Ledjmet Est fields in the Berkine Basin in southeast Algeria.