Sonatrach

Sonatrach
Company type	State-owned Corporation
Industry	Oil and Gas
Founded	December 1963
Headquarters	Hydra, Algiers, Algeria
Key people	Rachid Hachichi (CEO)
Products	Oil (fuels, lubricants); Natural Gas (LNG); Petrochemicals
Revenue	US$ 77 billion (2023)
Owner	Algerian government
Number of employees	+200,000 (2022)
Subsidiaries	Naftal; Numhyd; ALEPCO ; ENAGEO ; ENSP ; ENGTP ; ENAFOR ; GALSI; GCB National Civil Engineering Co.; ENTP National Well Engineering Company
Website	sonatrach.com

Sonatrach (Arabic: سوناطراك; French: Société Nationale pour la Recherche, la Production, le Transport, la Transformation, et la Commercialisation des Hydrocarbures) is the national state-owned oil company of Algeria. Founded in 1963, it is known today to be the largest company in Africa^[2]^[3] with 154 subsidiaries, and often referred as the first African oil "major".^[4] In 2021, Sonatrach was the seventh largest gas company in the world.^[5]

^ "Installation de Rachid Hachichi dans ses fonctions de nouveau PDG de Sonatrach". 2 October 2023. Archived from the original on 8 October 2023. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
^ Svetla Marinova, Jorma Larimo, Niina Nummela (2016). Value Creation in International Business Volume 1: An MNC Perspective. Springer. p. 60. ISBN 978-3-319-30803-6.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ Ayemba, Dennis (10 Mar 2020). "Sonatrach signs dry gas marketing deal until 2042". Africa Mining Brief. Archived from the original on 19 December 2021. Retrieved 19 Dec 2021.
^ "Sonatrach (Algeria)". www.fotw.info. Archived from the original on 2020-10-06. Retrieved 2021-05-20.
^ "Russian oil and gas: headed for long-term decline?". Financial Times. 2022-06-07. Archived from the original on 2022-07-01. Retrieved 2022-06-14.

[1] "Installation de Rachid Hachichi dans ses fonctions de nouveau PDG de Sonatrach". 2 October 2023. Archived from the original on 8 October 2023. Retrieved 8 October 2023.

[Marinova-2] Svetla Marinova, Jorma Larimo, Niina Nummela (2016). Value Creation in International Business Volume 1: An MNC Perspective. Springer. p. 60. ISBN 978-3-319-30803-6.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

[Ayemba_2020-3] Ayemba, Dennis (10 Mar 2020). "Sonatrach signs dry gas marketing deal until 2042". Africa Mining Brief. Archived from the original on 19 December 2021. Retrieved 19 Dec 2021.

[4] "Sonatrach (Algeria)". www.fotw.info. Archived from the original on 2020-10-06. Retrieved 2021-05-20.

[5] "Russian oil and gas: headed for long-term decline?". Financial Times. 2022-06-07. Archived from the original on 2022-07-01. Retrieved 2022-06-14.

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