Thursday, November 5, 2020
The Sonatrach Group’s gas compression stations in Hassi-R’Mel (Laghouat) will come into service from the first quarter of next year, after the completion of the current works which are coming to an end, according to a recent press release from Algeria’s state firm Sonatrach.
This project has three stations, North, Center and South, each of which consists of 4, 10 and 4 gas compression units respectively, with a treatment capacity estimated at 43 million cubic meters per day (mcm/d) for the North station, 110 mcm/d for the Center station and 37 mcm/d for the South station.
With a progress rate of 99%, the North and Center units will come into service in the first quarter of next year, which will allow the level of production to be maintained for almost a decade, Sonatrach states.
As part of his inspection visits to monitor the implementation of the Group’s various projects, the ON an inspection visit by Chairman and CEO of Sonatrach, Toufik Hakkar and the accompanying delegation the regional director, Baali Mohamed El-Seghir Redha, and the project manager Loucif Youcef, the CEO of Sonatrach commissioned the four units of this station from the room control unit equipped with sophisticated technical and digital equipment.