Cross-border gas-line projects face daunting challenges
- Sonatrach, Algiers (Algeria)
Pricing, costs, financing, and politics are chief among the issues that can impede construction of major, cross-border gas-pipeline projects trying to connect plentiful reserves with unsatisfied market demand. Additionally, strained relationships among parties involved in both supply and delivery can further slow or even halt progress on a project. In the cases of the Transmed (Algeria across Tunisia to Italy) and the Maghreb-Europe (Algeria across Morocco to Spain), the close working relationships of all parties involved helped resolve many issues and were key in the projects` eventual completion. Here is an update on these two important pipelines in addition to a synthesis of Sonatrach`s views on some of the major issues raised by the development of cross-border gas-transmission projects.
- OSTI ID:
- 556862
- Journal Information:
- Oil and Gas Journal, Vol. 95, Issue 50; Other Information: PBD: 15 Dec 1997
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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