Algeria: New integrated plant to produce oil well cement

Algeria's Minister of Industry and Mines, Abdessalem Bouchouareb, has stated that a planned 1.5Mta integrated plant being built by STG Engineering and Real Estate Development will be operational by 1Q17, Radio Algérienne reports.

As originally announced, the plant had been scheduled to begin production in 2016, but construction on the project did not begin until February of this year.

Built at a cost of DZD21bn (US$190m) in Timokten commune in the south's Adrar province, the plant will produce 0.2Mt of oil-well cement per year, reducing Algeria's current reliance on oil-well cement imports.

The projects instigators, STG Engineering and Real Estate Development Co, awarded the plant contract to China Triumph International Engineering (Sinoma Group).