Algeria Eyes New LNG Units

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Production from a new LNG unit in Al- geria will start next year at 5.4 million tons/yr and a second unit is expected to start production in 2013 at 7.4 million tons/yr, the head of Sonatrach said. "Sonatrach has launched two trains to produce LNG: A unit in Skikda with an esti- mated output of 5.4 million tonnes per year It will be ready in 2012," Nourredine Cher- ouati, the state energy company's chief exec- utive, was quoted by El Khabar newspaper on Tuesday as saying. "We have a second unit in Arzew with 7.4 million tonnes per year. It will be ready in 2013," he said.