As a predominately arid and semi-arid country, Algeria must carefully manage its limited water resources. In the past decade, it has witnessed recurring water shortages due to increasing demand from growing industries and the populace, as well as the effects of drought and pollution. For the past 30 years, Algeria’s rainfall levels have been below...
Due to recent power cuts during the summer of 2012, Algeria is accelerating plans to expand its capacity. According to statements made by the minister of energy and mines, Youcef Yousfi, the government is planning to increase output from the current 11,000 MW to 19,000 MW within the next five years, almost doubling capacity. Previously, the ministry...
Since 2006 Algeria has shown growing interest in using nuclear power as an alternative means of generating energy, and recent power shortages have provided the impetus plans to realise this. “We plan to generate 13% of electricity from nuclear energy by the year 2050,” Youcef Yousfi, minister of energy and mines, told OBG.
After three rather disappointing bidding rounds and increasingly lacklustre interest from international oil and gas companies, Algeria’s minister of energy and mines, Youcef Yousfi, declared towards the end of 2011 that the country needed to review its hydrocarbons legislation. Algeria’s Council of Ministers approved changes to its 2005 Hydrocarbons...
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