Place in Laghouat, Algeria
Hassi R'Mel (Arabic : حاسي الرمل , Berber language : Ḥasi Eṛṛmel) is a town in Algeria located near the 18th largest gas field worldwide . Hassi R'Mel is located in Laghouat Province 60 kilometres (37 mi) northwest of Ghardaïa . It is the capital of Hassi R'Mel District . Hassi R'Mel has an airport .
Hassi R'Mel is a hub for natural gas and oil pipelines running to coastal cities of Arzew , Algiers , and Skikda . The National Centre For Dispatching Gas is also the starting point for the Maghreb-Europe , Trans-Mediterranean , Medgaz and Galsi gas export pipelines supplying Southern Europe. The town is the planned final destination of the Trans-Saharan gas pipeline .
Hassi R'Mel is also home to an integrated solar combined cycle power station , the first of its kind in Algeria.[3]
Geology
The Hassi R'Mel gas field is a Triassic gas field discovered in 1956 with the HR-1 well and located in a Cretaceous anticline of the M'zab dorsal structure separating the Western Org Paleozoic basin to the west and the Oued Mya basin to the east.[4] Cambrian rhyolite forms the basement which is overlain by the Tassili Cambro-Ordovician sandstone group, a Siluro-Devonian shale and then Mesozoic sediments .[5] The A, B and C reservoir sandstones are Permo-Triassic with a total thickness of about 115 m and sealed by Late Triassic salt and shale.[6]
References
^ "Décret executif n° 91-306 du 24 août 1991 fixant la liste des communes animées par chaque chef de daïra. 03 - Wilaya de Laghouat" [List of municipalities animated by each District chief: 03 - Laghouat Province] (PDF) (in French). Journal officiel de la République Algérienne. 4 September 1991. p. 1294. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2019-10-25. Retrieved 2019-11-03 .
^ "Wilaya de Laghouat: répartition de la population résidente des ménages ordinaires et collectifs, selon la commune de résidence et la dispersion" (PDF) (in French). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2023-06-07. Retrieved 2019-11-03 . . Data from the 2008 General Population and Housing Census on the site of the NOS Algeria .
^ "Siemens to provide long-term service to first hybrid solar power plant in Algeria" . Siemens Global Website . Amy Pempel. Archived from the original on 21 May 2024. Retrieved 30 November 2015 .
^ Magloire, P. R., 1970, Triassic Gas Field of Hassi er R'Mel, Algeria, AAPG Memoir 14: Geology of Giant Petroleum Fields, Tulsa: AAPG, pp. 489-490.
^ Magloire, P. R., 1970, Triassic Gas Field of Hassi er R'Mel, Algeria, AAPG Memoir 14: Geology of Giant Petroleum Fields, Tulsa: AAPG, pp. 491-493.
^ Magloire, P. R., 1970, Triassic Gas Field of Hassi er R'Mel, Algeria, AAPG Memoir 14: Geology of Giant Petroleum Fields, Tulsa: AAPG, pp. 495-497.