On 15 February 2018, it was announced that Neptune Energy Group completed the takeover of Engie E&P International SA. Neptune will thus become an independent E&P company active in the North Sea, North Africa and South East Asia. In Algeria, Engie operates the Touat gas development which is due to come on stream in the first quarter of 2018. The Touat gas project is developed by the Groupement Touat led by Engie. It is a cluster development of 9 fields that entails the drilling of 40 development wells in total (25 to first gas) and the construction of associated infrastructure at the cost of around USD 2 billion. The project taps 2,800 Bcf of gas reserves and was initially due to come on stream in 2014. Plateau production rate is expected to be around 435 MMcf/d of gas.  Â 
Algeria (Sbaa Sub-basin (Timimoun B.)) Touat