Africa · DZA · OPEC
Algeria
Europe’s southern gas field. Domestic demand is eating the export surplus.
Oil production
1.2 mb/d
0.5 mb/d demand
Net oil
+0.8 mb/d
Export surplus
Gas production
100 bcm
Net +52 bcm
O&G rent
19.0%
Fiscal breakeven $110
Oil balance
Production versus demand, 2025, million barrels per day.
Gas balance
Production versus demand, 2025, billion cubic metres.
Proven oil
12 bn bbl
Gas reserves
4.5 tcm
Refining
0.7 mb/d
LNG
14 bcm export
Hydrocarbon mix
Oil versus gas in this country’s oil-and-gas demand (oil-equivalent).
- Oil21%
- Gas79%
Inflows and outflows
What leaves. What arrives.
Algeria outflows 0 kb/d crude, 28 bcm LNG. Inflows 0 kb/d crude, 0 bcm LNG.
Local crude
Priced off the waterborne tape.
No local futures contract on this board. Brent, Dubai and WTI still set the netback. Open the flows desk for the markers that moved when Maduro was ousted and when the Iran war started.
Crude flowsMapped crude
Barrels per day.
This economy is not on the mapped seaborne board. The corridors that rewired in 2026 are on Flows.
LNG out
- Spain11 bcm+1 bcm
- Europe (ARA)9 bcm+1 bcm
- France8 bcm+1 bcm
LNG in
None mapped.
Economy
The budget is a Henry Hub/TTF hybrid via oil-indexed contracts. Sonatrach under-investment is the 2030s cliff. Solar is abundant and barely built.
- GDP
- $0.3 tn
- Population
- 47.0 m
- Oil intensity
- 0.6 bbl /$1k
- Oil & gas rent
- 19.0% GDP
- Hydrocarbon trade
- -14.0% GDP
- Fiscal breakeven
- $110 /bbl
- $30 oil shock
- +32.2 pp GDP
- Club
- OPEC
Projected oil demand
Regional IEA WEO 2025 oil pathways applied to this country’s 2025 baseline. STEPS 2035 demand 0.6 mb/d (net +0.7) versus NZE 0.4 mb/d (net +0.2).
| Scenario | 2025 | 2030 | 2035 | 2050 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stated Policies | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.8 |
| Net Zero 2050 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.2 |
| Current Policies | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.8 |