Skikda

At 6: 39 that January evening, one of the plant operators at Skikda noticed that the steam-pressure indicator in Train 40, an array of compressors and separators, was rising fast.

THE NEXT NEW OIL IS A GAS 2008

The ambush in the Skikda locality, 500 kilometers (310 miles) east of Algiers, had apparently targeted the military commander of the region and his police escort, the reports said.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

But the lesson of Skikda is that fear and politics will also shape the search for affordable energy supplies.

THE NEXT NEW OIL IS A GAS 2008

The scene was the Algerian port of Skikda, where processing plants take natural gas pumped from the Sahara and cool it under enormous pressure to 162 degrees below zero Celsius.

THE NEXT NEW OIL IS A GAS 2008

Skikda, 500 kilometers (300 miles) east of Algiers, killing eight police, three soldiers and a civilian, media reports said.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

But at 6: 40 p.m. on Jan. 19, according to a subsequent report on the Skikda incident by the Algerian state energy company, Sonatrach, "a first explosion was heard, followed immediately by a second more massive explosion and a huge fireball."

THE NEXT NEW OIL IS A GAS 2008

The scene was the Algerian port of Skikda, where processing plants take natural gas pumped from the Sahara and cool it under enormous pressure to 162 degrees below zero Celsius.

Fuel's Future 2007

But the lesson of Skikda is that fear and politics will also shape the search for affordable energy supplies.

Fuel's Future 2007

But at 6: 40 p.m. on Jan. 19, according to a subsequent report on the Skikda incident by the Algerian state energy company, Sonatrach, "a first explosion was heard, followed immediately by a second more massive explosion and a huge fireball."

Fuel's Future 2007

At 6: 39 that January evening, one of the plant operators at Skikda noticed that the steam-pressure indicator in "Train 40," an array of compressors and separators, was rising fast.

Fuel's Future 2007