Sonatrach keeps gas giant

摘要

Algeria's Sonatrach has thrown the foreign firms out of the planned massive US 4 Bn integrated Gassi Touil LNG project.Costs for the Repsol/Gas Natural/Sonatrach project have spiralled since it was awarded in 2004.In addition Sonatrach has become much more confident of its own abilities as an operator,and the Spanish and Algerian governments have been arguing in recent months over how much of the gas from Algeria's Medgaz export pipeline can be sold in Spain.