Earth to move for Hassi Messaoud as Algerian planners move town


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Issue 88 - 02 Jul 2005
The presence of major untapped reserves directly under Algerias oil capital, and the economic opportunity and H&S risks they represent have forced planners hands the desert boomtown is to be shifted some 70km to the west, write Lys Sahar in Algiers and African Energy staff.

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