Algeria gets new LNG plant

Algeria’s Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal has on Monday opened a new LNG plant in the industrial zone of Arzew.

Sonatrach has invested  about $4 billion in the liquefaction plant, according to a report by Algerie Presse Service

The plant has a production capacity of 4.7 million tonnes per year and replaces the LNG unit that closed in 2010 after 46 years of activity .

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LNG World News Staff, November 11, 2014; Image: Sonatrach