In Amenas resumption ‘in days’ – report

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Eoin O'Cinneide ,

News Wires

 24 January 2013 13:27 GMT

A partial resumption of output at the In Amenas gas plant in Algeria is expected within days, according to a report.

The facility, which was attacked by armed militants last week, leaving scores dead, will not resume full operations for about a month, however, Reuters quoted an Algerian energy source as saying.

"A partial not a full production is possible in the next few days, but we need more or less a month to resume full production," a source within joint field operator, state oil company Sonatrach, told the news wire on condition of anonymity.

Algerian authorities and oil companies are still trying to compiled the facts of what happened at In Amenas beginning…

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