The oilfield services giant will work on a de-bottlenecking project at the field 550 kilometres south of the capital Algiers, it said on Wednesday.

“The engineering design services involve a major flow assurance exercise using Amec Foster Wheeler’s proprietary software to identify future bottlenecks in the gas field gathering network,” the contractor said.

“In addition, the team will undertake detailed pipeline design, compression studies and the multi-disciplined specification of the additional infrastructure required to allow continued production.”

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