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Algeria’s national oil company SONATRACH announced on Tuesday that it has completed the production start-up of Tinrhert gas field towards the existing units in Ohanet, Wilaya of Illizi, whose gradual production started in July 2022.
The project was completed at the end of November 2022, Sonatrach said in a press statement.
The project involves the construction of a collection network allowing to connect 36 gas wells from the Tinrhert field to the separation and compression facilities located in the nearby Ohanet field.
In January 2019, local firm and SONATRACH subsidiary ENGCB was awarded the contract for the collection and connection portion while UK’s Petrofac got the construction contract for inlet separation and compression facilities.
The successful commissioning of the surface facilities has led to a production level of 4.5 million cubic metres per day of gas, 500 tonnes/day of LPG and 800 tonnes/day of condensate, the statement said.
(Writing by Senthil Palanisamy; Editing by Anoop Menon)
