Algeria has commissioned the Ain Tsila gas complex in Illizi Province, with a processing capacity of 12 mcm/day of gas. The facility includes a 125 MW power plant and is connected to the national grid via a 355-km pipeline network. It is designed to process associated gas from the Tin-Fouyé-Tabenkort basin locally. The region is home to the Isarene field, which holds estimated reserves of 2.1 trillion cubic feet of gas and 67 million barrels of condensates.
By processing gas on-site, the Ain Tsila complex enables the production of 1,800 tonnes of condensates and 1,600 tonnes of LPG per day. Official estimates indicate that the site contains around 108 million barrels of LPG. The project was developed under a joint venture initially formed between Algeria’s state-owned oil and gas company Sonatrach, and international partners Petroceltic (now UK-based Sunny Hill Energy) and Italy’s Enel. The US$600m EPC contract was awarded to the UK’s Petrofac in 2019.
The production capacity from the Tin-Fouyé-Tabenkort field has reached 54 kb/d of crude oil and 5.2 million cubic meters of associated gas, of which 2.4 mcm/day are allocated for export.