The Dodsal Group, a Dubai-based business conglomerate currently operating in countries across the Middle East and North Africa (Mena), East Africa and India, has been awarded a $1.1-billion engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) by Sonatrach, Algeria’s state energy producer, to execute a separation and compression centre (CSC) at the periphery area of South HGA-Hassi Messaoud.

The work, which includes detailed engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning of the plant, will begin shortly and is scheduled to be completed in 2020.

Once ready, the plant will be producing at a capacity of 66,000 barrels per day.

On the contract win, Dodsal Group chairman and president Dr Rajen A Kilachand said: "This order further strengthens our long-term relationship with Sonatrach and also reinforces our presence in Algeria, which is a strategic market."