Algeria is confident in its security
situation following January's attack by Islamic militants on its In Amenas gas
field, said Ali Hached, adviser to Algeria's Minister of Energy, on
the sidelines of a conference Thursday.
"People are coming back to Algeria,"
he said, adding that the country has intensified security measures for its oil
and gas fields.
"We are very confident; we faced ten years of a very difficult situation,
we overcame all these difficulties no problem. Our partners understand very well,"
Mr. Hached said.
Mr. Hached also said that the country was working towards fully restoring
production at the In Amenas gas field.
"The second facility will restart very soon and the third by the end of
the year," he said.
Norway's
Statoil ASA said in February that production from the plant's train 1 had
restarted but declined to give a timeline on the restoration of the remaining
two production trains.