Cooperation agreement between Houari Boumediene University and Sonatrach to develop gas research – Algerian Dialogue

The Houari Boumediene University of Science and Technology signed, today, Thursday in the capital, a cooperation agreement with the Central Directorate for Research and Development of the Sonatrach complex, aiming to enhance scientific and pedagogical exchanges between the two institutions, especially in the field of gas research and finding technological solutions to develop it.
This agreement was signed by the Dean of the University, Professor Jamal al-Din Akarç, and the Central Director of Research and Development at the Sonatrach Complex, Mohamed Mustafa Ben Amara, at the university’s headquarters, in the presence of the executives of the two institutions, within the framework of the agreement-framework signed between the two parties during the year 2021, which aims to strengthen Joint cooperation.
This joint cooperation aims to enhance research in gas, especially to find solutions to the presence of what is known as “black powder” in gas, which “petroleum companies suffer from in gas production and transportation by pipelines and containers, and the citizen also suffers from it in his private vehicle,” according to the explanations provided. By Dr. Researcher at the Central Directorate for Research and Development at Sonatrach, Khaled Qadi.
By the way, Ben Amara explained that this agreement comes within the framework of the research program that Sonatrach is currently working on in all fields, as it aims to “enhance joint cooperation between the experts of the two institutions to establish a research program to study how to get rid of” black powder, which will constitute a new method in treating Gas and allows the necessary amount of it to be exported abroad.”
For his part, the dean of the university confirmed that this agreement “comes within the framework of the new vision that the university is currently adopting, which is represented in its openness to the economic environment, especially with the Sonatrach complex, which is a leader in development.”
This cooperation will enable the “Flood Mechanics” laboratory of the University’s College of Physics to provide its contributions to solving the global problem of the presence of black powder in gas, as well as assisting university students, especially doctoral students, in establishing startups and mini-enterprises.”