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Monday, July 25, 2016
The Krechba gas plant, a satellite operation of Algeria’s In Salah gas field, has seen some of its foreign workers return. BP and Statoil removed their foreign staff following a mortar attack in March.
While the facility was not damaged in the attack, nor was anyone injured, BP and Statoil thought it prudent to remove the expatriate staff. The facility has been operational since the attack, according to Sonatrach.
It is most likely the number of expatriate staff that return to the plant full time will be lower than prior to the attack.
Statoil said none of the foreigners returning to the operation were its employees. “(After the rocket attack) we made the decision to temporarily withdraw our expats and there is no change to that,” a spokesman said in a Reuters report. “We follow the security situation closely. It is obviously challenging.”
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