The international upstream arm of Russia’s Gazprom and Algerian state oil firm Sonatrach this week greenlighted a project to develop two gas fields in Algeria’s Berkine Basin.
The project centres around the 2010 Rhourde Sayah and 2014 Rhourde Sayah North discoveries located on the El Assel license (236b). The partners plan to drill 24 wells and construct a processing unit for gas, condensate and LPG, with first output envisioned in 2025. It is unclear whether the two smaller discoveries of Zemlet er Rekkeb and Zemlet er Rekkeb North will also be tied in (MEES, 1 February 2019). (CONTINUED - 402 WORDS)