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Article: Aker wins Hassi Messaoud.(Hassi Messaoud )(Brief article)
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- MEED Middle East Economic Digest
- Article date:
- September 1, 2006
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Oslo-based Aker Kvaerner announced on 29 August that it had been awarded the process equipment package on the Hassi Messaoud oil field development, 650 kilometres southwest of Algiers. The project, which comprises crude oil degassing and desalination and the upgrade of processing and control facilities, is part of a major upgrade programme by the client, state energy company Sonatrach. The scheme aims to increase oil production on the field to 700,000-750,000 barrels a day (b/d) in 2010-12 from about 350,000 b/d in 2005 (MEED 18:8:06).
Estimated to be worth $23 million, the 20-month engineering, procurement, installation and commissioning (EPIC) contract calls for ...