Algeria

In Algeria Bouteflika may have gone but the country’s future is anything but resolved. In neighboring Libya, Haftar’s march on Tripoli threatens more instability.

Thousands again took to the streets of Algiers on 29 March to demanding the ouster of the country’s ruling...

Algeria’s political impasse may prove solvable. But the country’s economic stasis is deeply entrenched. Oil and gas exports and revenue are set to keep falling.

Thai state firm PTTEP says it has started development work at its Hassi Bir Rekaiz (HBR) oil project in...

Algeria has advanced one of the few major projects in the pipeline with $1bn EPC award but Bouteflika’s retirement is unlikely to quell protests.

Algeria’s 82-year old wheelchair-bound president Abdelaziz Bouteflika caved in to mass demonstrations against ‘his’ reelection bid (MEES, 8 March), announcing on...

It is difficult to see a peaceful resolution to the mass demonstrations against ailing president Bouteflika's plans to seek a fifth term. Certainly 'le pouvoir' lack answers.

Sonatrach has completed the modest expansion of the Algiers refinery, but years late. Efforts at overseas downstream expansion look much more sprightly.

Collective oil output at three key fields in Algeria’s Berkine Basin fell to 319,000 b/d in Q4 and 320,000...

Algeria’s foreign exchange reserves have fallen below $80bn for the first time since December 2006. Speaking on 2 February,...

Russian state firm Gazprom plans to only develop two of the four gas-condensate fields discovered in a nine-well 2009-16...

Algeria’s state petroleum firm Sonatrach and France’s Total have finalized their Sonatrach Total Entreprise Polymères (STEP) JV to develop...