Korean company, Samsung Engineering Company has won an $800-million contract to build a gas treatment facility and pipeline in Algiers, Algeria. The company signed the Algeria Timimoun Field Development project with Groupement Timimoun (GTIM), a joint venture between Sonatrach, Total and Cepsa, earlier this week. .According to a statement by Samsung Engineering, it is responsible for engineering, procurement, construction and pre-commissioning on a lump-sum-turn-key basis to build a 180km pipeline and a Central Processing Facility (CPF) with a capacity of 177 million standard cubic feet per day (MMSCFD). The project is expected to reach its completion in 2017.