Sonelgaz Appoints Three Top Execs

Algerian state utility Sonelgaz CEO Mustapha Guitouni, appointed last month, has named three senior executives to head subsidiary companies.

Cherif Zeghoud is the new CEO of gas transmission operator GRTG, Abdelhamid Rais is the new CEO of power grid operator GRTE, while Miloud Maamoun becomes CEO of power projects developer KAHRIF. The appointments were made on July 12-13. All three engineers previously worked at director level within Sonelgaz subsidiaries.

Miloud Maamoun, new CEO of Sonelgaz subsidiary KAHRIF (Photo credit: Maamoun / Facebook)

GRTG operates 15,598 km high-pressure pipelines and routes 37bn m^³/yr of gas supplied to the domestic market, said Sonelgaz, and does so to 1,696 public distribution systems and 224 industrial customers across Sonelgaz’s four distribution companies. Algeria’s domestic gas sales are now acknowledged to be about the same size as its export sales.

GRTE runs 27,284 km high-voltage cables, and 3,167 very high-voltage (400 kV) ones. KAHRIF since its creation in 1982 has laid more than 110,000 km power distribution networks, contributing to the electrification of 80% of the country, and also lays new local gas mains and fibre optic cables.

Some 99% of Algerians have access to electricity, while 52% have access to gas.

Mark Smedley