ALGIERS - Algerian state energy firm Sonatrach and France's Total are planning to work together on offshore, petrochemical, solar energy and shale exploration projects, Sonatrach's CEO said on Tuesday.

"Our relation with Total is good now. We will do a lot together including in shale, solar and offshore. We are also into petrochemicals," Sonatrach CEO Ould Kaddour told reporters.

He gave no details.



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