The engineering, procurement,construction and pre-commissioning contract covers the constructionof a 180-kilometre pipeline and a central processing facility.
The central processing facility willhave a capacity of 177 million cubic feet per day and both it and thepipeline are slated for completion in 2017.
The Timimoun field development projectlies about 800 kilometres south-west of the Algerian capital Algiersand involves the drilling of about 40wells to tap eight structures over a 2500 square kilometre area.
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