Continuation of the Skikda project

14 June 2010 - New contracts - Algeria

At Skikda, on the Mediterranean coast some 300 km to the east of Algiers, where the country’s biggest complex of cryogenic storage tanks is being built, teams from the EVO consortium, which brings together Entrepose Contracting and VINCI Construction Grands Projets (subsidiaries of VINCI Construction) and Orascom, have launched the simultaneous construction of three tanks: one for liquefied natural gas (150,000 cu. metres), and the two others (each 66,200 cu. metres) for butane and propane. Freyssinet, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), is deploying the prestressed concrete (1,000 t of steel) for the three structures. The project, which also calls for the construction of a 3,600 cu. metre sphere, was launched in July 2008. It is due for completion in December 2011.