1.
GV. PAN. Of the town of Arzew.
0.06

2.
LV. Mechanical shovel cutting trench for pipe line.
0.10

3.
NV. Ditto.
0.13

4.
CU. Of shovel.
0.17

5.
LV. Mechanical shovel operating.
0.20

6.
CU. Soil being scooped out.
0.24

7.
CU. Soil being thrown on to side.
0.27

8.
LV. Of trench and area.
0.30

9.
LV. PAN. From tractor to pipe being made.
0.36

10.
LV. Of pipe being prepared for laying
0.41

11.
CU. Of man coating pipe with tar.
0.45

12.
LV. Machine covering pipe.
0.49

13.
CU. Machine covering pipe.
0.53

14.
CU. Different angle, ditto.
0.58

15.
LV. Pipe being laid.
1.02

16.
PAN. From men to pipe being laid.
1.07

17.
PAN. From machine covering pipe to pipe being laid in trench.
1.16

18.
LV.PAN. Of pipe laying in trench.
1.22

19.
CU. Man placing sandbags to protect pipe.
1.26

20.
CU. Workmen on machine.
1.27

21.
SV. Scoop picking up earth and covering trench.
1.32

22.
CU. Ditto.
1.37

23.
LV. Men in vinyard.
1.40

24.
CU. PAN. From grapes to men preparing to lay pipe through vineyard.
1.53

25.
GV. PAN. Of the town of Arzew.
1.59



Initials JRG/IM/S/JH/CW



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Background: Laying a 650-kilometre-long natural gas pipeline from the world's third largest gas field at Hassi R'Mel in central Algeria to the small village of Arzew on the coast near Oran, Western Algeria, is due for competition October, 1960.

Mechanical trench diggers, pipe-layers and teams of workers are at work on the project. Arzew, today a small fishing port, n the future may welcome as important as Algeria's oil terminal at Bougie. Arzew as an industrial centre will operate on the Hassi R'Mel gas direct from the pipeline without any need for refining.

Hassi R'Mel's known reserves are large enough to supply France's power needs for the next 25 years. The pipeline to Arzew is part of France's five-year development plan for Algeria. A future project: to pipe the gas under the Mediterranean to Cartagena, Spain, then to France.