Amec Foster Wheeler has been awarded a contract by Sonatrach to supply engineering services for the debottlenecking of the Hassi R’Mel gas field, located about 550 km south of Algiers, according to a news release.

The value of the consultancy contract, to be delivered by experts in Amec Foster Wheeler’s Reading office, has not been announced.

The engineering design services involve a major flow assurance exercise using Amec Foster Wheeler’s proprietary software to identify future bottlenecks in the gas field gathering network. In addition, the team will undertake detailed pipeline design, compression studies and the multi-disciplined specification of the additional infrastructure required to allow continued production, the release said.