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Article: Algeria - Oil Producting Fields - Profiles.
- Article from:
- APS Review Oil Market Trends
- Article date:
- February 8, 1999
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The following are brief profiles of the main oil producing fields which have been offered to contractors or for foreign equity and EOR investment, and those which have been taken up by foreign companies: Hassi Messaoud: This is Algeria's first and largest oilfield, discovered by the French in 1956. Algeria's first and largest gas field was also discovered by the French in 1956 (see Gas Market Trends). Hassi Messaoud is 1,600 sq km and has two distinct zones: HM North and HM South. It produces 46 deg. API oil exported through the Bougie terminal. It has two thick plays, separated by a fault zone, producing from two formations: Cambrian and Ordovician at depths of up to ...
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