Brenda Shaffer in Petroleum Economist
“The only potentially foreseeable event that could garner sufficient commercial attraction to the project, would be if supplies from Algeria to Europe were seriously disrupted and were no longer viewed as reliable,” says Brenda Shaffer of the Energy Academic Group at the US Naval Postgraduate School. “Algeria is going through a period of instability, which has not received much media coverage. And security is North Africa is getting worse, with IS fighters moving to the region after being dislodged from Iraq and Syria.”