Name and Location
Timimoun field development project, Algeria.

Client
Groupement Timimoun (GTIM), a joint venture between Sonatrach (51%), Total (37.75%) and Compañía Española de Petróleos (Cepsa, 11.25%).

Project Description
Timimoun is a nonconventional gas project covering 2 500 km², with eight different plays located in the centre of Algeria.

The project is expected to include:
• 40 wells to tap the eight structures over an area of 2 500 km²;
• a gas gathering system;
• central gas-processing facilities; and
• a connection to the export pipeline.

At plateau production, Timimoun is designed to produce 1.6-billion cubic metres a year of natural gas over eight years.

Value
The project will cost an estimated $1.5-billion to develop.

Duration
The project aims to start gas production in 2016.

Latest Developments
Samsung Engineering has signed the Algeria Timimoun field development project, worth $800-million, with GTIM.

Samsung will be responsible for the engineering, procurement, construction and precommissioning on a lump-sum-turnkey basis of a 180 km pipeline and a central processing facility, with a capacity of 177-million standard cubic feet a day on a lump-sum turnkey basis. The project is expected to be completed in 2017.

Key Contracts and Suppliers
Samsung Engineering (engineering, procurement, construction and precommissioning of a pipeline and central processing facility).

On Budget and on Time?
Not stated.

Contact Details for Project Information
Cepsa, tel +213 21 60 25 61 or email algerOffice@ cepsa.com.
Total, tel + 33 1 47 44 45 46.
Sonatrach, tel +213 21 54 70 00, fax +213 21 54 81 11 or email groupe.presse@sonatrach.dz.
Samsung Engineering, tel +82 2 2053 3000.