Hassi R'Mel gas field
Hassi R'Mel ( Arabic حاسي الرمل) Is a natural gas field in the province of Laghouat in Algeria . The field is the largest in Africa and one of the largest gas fields in the world . In the center of the field is the village of the same name, Hassi R'Mel . From here the field extends about 70 km in north-south and 50 km in east-west direction.
The deposit was discovered in 1956 when French companies were looking for oil in Algeria. Development began in 1961. The size of the deposit has been estimated at up to 3000 billion m³, of which around 2400 billion are economically exploitable. Around 100 billion m³ are extracted every year; this corresponds to about a quarter of the Algerian annual funding .
Hassi R'Mel is an important hub in the pipeline network between Africa and Europe. The place is the starting point of the Maghreb-Europe pipelines (via Morocco to Spain), Medgaz (to Spain), Transmed (via Tunisia to Italy) and GALSI (via Sardinia to Italy) as well as the end point of the planned Trans-Sahara pipeline (from Nigeria) .
literature
- Philippe R. Magloire: Triassic Gas Field of Hassi er R'Mel, Algeria . In: Geology of Giant Petroleum Fields (= AAPG Special Volumes ). Memoir 14, 1970, pp. 489-501 ( summary in the AAPG / Datapages Combined Publications Database ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tobias Schumacher: Desires in the Great Maghreb and Sudan . In: Josef Braml (Hrsg.): World compatible energy security policy (= Yearbook International Politics ). tape 28 . Oldenbourg-Verlag, 2008, ISBN 3-486-58342-5 , p. 136-143 .
- ↑ a b Hassi R'Mel. Well Database. (No longer available online.) OilVoice, archived from the original on February 1, 2014 ; accessed on September 13, 2013 .
- ↑ Natural Gas Liquid Extraction in Algeria. (No longer available online.) MBendi Information Services, archived from the original on May 26, 2016 ; accessed on September 13, 2013 .
Coordinates: 32 ° 57 ' N , 3 ° 15' E