Name and Location
In Salah carbon capture and storage project, Algeria.

Project Description
In Salah is the largest dry gas joint venture in Algeria, involving the development of seven proven gasfields in southern Sahara, 1 200 km south of Algiers.

The project is being developed in phases.

The first phase involves the development of the Krechba, Teguentour and Reg gasfields, which hold a combined 160-billion cubic metres of methane gas. At Krechba, the carbon dioxide gas is compressed and pumped back into a deep saline formation down-dip, a part of the formation lower than the natural gas reservoir, at a depth of 2 km.

The In Salah southern gasfields development is the second phase of the project. Its aim is to maintain gas production at plateau levels when production from the three northern fields go into decline. It involves the development.

Value
The first phase of the project was valued at $1,75-billion, and the cost for the second phase is estimated at $1,5-billion.

Duration
Phase one delivered first gas in July 2004. Phase two of the project is expected to start production in 2013.

Client
The In Salah Gas (ISG) joint venture, comprising State-owned Société Nationale pour la Recherche, la Production, le Transport, la Transformation, et la Commercialisation des Hydrocarbures (Sonatrach) (35%), BP (33%) and StatoilHydro (32%).

Key Contracts and Suppliers
Foster Wheeler (front-end engineering design (Feed) contract); Petrofac (engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services for southern fields); and Furmanite (leak sealing and composite repair services).

Latest Developments
Petrofac has been awarded a $1,2-billion lump-sum EPC contract to develop the southern fields of the In Salah development project.

The company’s scope of work includes a new central production and gas gathering unit at In Salah, comprising two dehydration trains, with the capacity to produce around 16,8-million cubic metres of gas a day; associated permanent camps; and some 300 km of pipelines for gas collection from the in-field wells intended for export to the existing Krechba facility.

An additional dehydration train will also be installed at the existing Reg facilities, with modifications planned for future operation of the compression facilities.

The Teg and Krechba compression facilities will also be upgraded for future operations. The 50-month project, to be completed in phases, will support the maintenance of plateau gas production rates of nine-billion cubic metres a year, beyond 2013.

On Budget and on Time?
Not stated.

Contact Details for Project Information
BP, tel +213 21 94 5999 or fax +213 21 94 5989.
Foster Wheeler media contacts, Julie Stanisz, tel +1 908 730 4047 or email julie_stanisz@fwc.com; or Jan Rogers, tel +1 908 713 3288 or email jan_rogers@fwc.com.
Keep in Touch, on behalf of Furmanite, Sarah Manwaring-White, tel +44 1 45 184 4488 or email sarah_mw@keepintouch.co.uk.
Petrofac (Algeria), tel +213 21 89 1552/1555 or fax +213 21 898 1554; or head of corporate communications Hazel Meldrum, email communications@petrofac.com.
Sonatrach, tel + 213 21 54 7000/8011, fax +213 21 54 7700 or email sonatrach@sonatrach.dz.
StatoilHydro, tel +47 51 99 0000 or fax +47 51 99 0050.