Global oil and gas services provider Petrofac has won a three-year contract for the Reggane gas project in the Algerian Sahara desert worth $970million.
The deal with Groupement Reggane, a partnership comprising Algerian state-owned company Sonatrach (40%), Spain’s Repsol (29.25%), Germany’s RWE Dea AG (19.5%) and Edison of Italy (11.25%), covers gas gathering, treatment and export facilities package of the Reggane North Development Project (Reggane), 1,500 kilometres south-west of Algiers.
Petrofac will manage the engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning and start-up 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.
“I am delighted we have the opportunity to be working with the Groupement Reggane partners to deliver this strategically important upstream project,” said Subramanian Sarma, managing director of Petrofac’s onshore engineering and construction business.
“The award also represents another important building block in our long association with Algeria where we have been operating successfully for more than 15 years.”
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 which is being executed for Sonatrach in partnership with Italian contractor Bonatti.