Petrofac, the international oil and gas services provider, has been awarded a 36-month contract worth more than USD 970M for the gas gathering, treatment and export facilities package of the Reggane North Development Project (Reggane) located in the Reggane basin of the Algerian Sahara desert 1,500km south-west of Algiers.
Awarded by Groupement Reggane, a partnership comprising Algerian state-owned company Sonatrach (40%), Spain’s Repsol (29.25%), Germany’s RWE Dea (19.5%) and Edison of Italy (11.25%), Petrofac will be undertaking the engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning and start-up (EPCCS) of the gas treatment plant, gathering system and export pipeline. The Reggane project will bring on stream 26 wells from four fields in the Reggane basin (Reggane, Kahlouche, Kahlouche South and Azrafil South East), all part of permissions granted for blocks 351c and 352c.
Subramanian Sarma, managing director of Petrofac’s Onshore Engineering & Construction business, commented, “I am delighted we have the opportunity to be working with the Groupement Reggane partners to deliver this strategically important upstream project.” Petrofac’s ongoing EPC activities in Algeria also include the Southern fields development project for In Salah Gas (ISG), an association between Sonatrach, BP and Statoil, and the Alrar gas-field development project being executed for Sonatrach in partnership with Italian contractor Bonatti.
