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ALNAFT officially launched the Algeria Bid Round 2026 on 19 April 2026 in Algiers, offering seven onshore exploration/development perimeters (Est Bordj Omar Driss I, Illizi Centre I, El M'Zaid Nord, El Borma II, El Hadjira III, El Benoud Est, Touggourt Sud) located in the Ouargla, Illizi, Touggourt, and El Bayadh hydrocarbon provinces. The round operates under the Loi n° 19-13 hydrocarbons framework, with the virtual data room (VDR) opening 1 June 2026, bids due 26 November 2026, and contracts to be signed no later than 31 January 2027. The initiative is Algeria's first structured multi-block bid round since the 2019 framework law restructured the upstream contractual and institutional architecture, and is materially significant to EU gas-import diversification given Algeria's approximately 12% share of EU gas supply via the Medgaz and Transmed pipelines plus LNG.

Loi n° 22-18 du 24 juillet 2022 relative à l'investissement (Journal Officiel de la République Algérienne n° 50 du 28 juillet 2022) is Algeria's first comprehensive investment-code overhaul since Ordonnance 01-03 du 20 août 2001 and its 2016 Loi 16-09 amendment. The law replaces the legacy framework, codifies a liberalised FDI regime — retaining 51% Algerian-equity floors only for strategic sectors (hydrocarbons extraction, mining extraction, military/security) — creates the Agence Algérienne de Promotion de l'Investissement (AAPI) as the new single-window FDI-promotion agency and the Conseil National de l'Investissement (CNI) chaired by the Premier Ministre, and defines three investment regimes: Régime des Secteurs, Régime des Zones (Sud + Hauts-Plateaux territorial incentives), and the Régime Structurant for large-scale strategic projects ≥ DZD 2bn (~USD 15M) that attract negotiated multi-pillar fiscal, customs, parafiscal, and social-contribution incentive packages. Eight implementing décrets exécutifs n° 22-296 through 22-303 were published in JORADP n° 60 du 18 septembre 2022, operationalising governance, incentive matrices, the digital Registre National des Investissements, and dispute-resolution architecture.

Algeria's Law n° 19-13 of 11 December 2019, published in Journal Officiel N° 79 of 22 December 2019, replaces the 2005 hydrocarbons law (Loi n° 05-08) and restructures the entire upstream oil and gas legal-fiscal framework. The law reintroduces Production Sharing Contracts (PSC) and Risk Service Contracts (RSC) alongside the legacy royalty-and-tax Participation Contract model that the 2005 statute had offered as the sole contractual form, and establishes a new three-way institutional architecture separating the Ministry of Energy (policy), Autorité de Régulation des Hydrocarbures (ARH, upstream regulator), and Agence Nationale pour la Valorisation des Ressources en Hydrocarbures (ALNAFT, licensing authority) from Sonatrach's operational NOC role. Sonatrach retains a statutory minimum-participation right and pre-emption privilege across all upstream contracts, while fiscal terms are restructured with basin-maturity and project-economics calibration to attract international investment after the 2014 oil-price collapse froze new entrants.