Eng. Mustafa Sanalla, NOC Chairman of the Board, Dr. Abdelmomen Weld Qadour Chairman and General Manager of Sonatrach Company and Mr. John W. Wallace Chairman and CEO of DeGolyer and MacNaughton (D & M) Company signed the joint reservoir study of Al Wafa Gas Field and Al Rar Gas Field of Algeria on Monday 15 January 2018 in the presence of Mr. Abulgasem Shingheer Member of the Board of Directors for Exploration & Production, Mr. Jaweed Ben Sharif General Manager of Production and Development at Sonatrach in addition to a number of engineers from NOC, Sonatrach and Mellita Oil & Gas.
The study aims at updating the previous study that was conducted in 2008. It comes within the framework of the mutual cooperation between NOC and Sonatrach in terms of the development programs of each party fairly.
It is worth mentioning that Al Wafa Gas Field, operated by Mellita Oil & Gas, started production in 2004. It supplies gas to Al Ruwais Power Plant in Baten Aljabal district and the costal system for providing the power plants with natural gas.