Talk:Sonatrach

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What is Sonatrach doing in sustainability engineering?
I would like the major fossil fuel company articles to indicate how they intend to transition to carbon-neutral fuels such as this work and "power to gas." I need to know whether they support emerging chemical engineering research such as catalysts for carbon-neutral transportation fuels, whether they are working on compressed air energy storage such as and, airborne wind turbines such as , and on extracting carbon from seawater such as this PARC method in order to solve their long-term corporate viability issues. I do not believe it is possible to have a truly balanced article on a fossil fuel company without some indication of their long term prospects. Tim AFS (talk) 04:28, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

I also need to know whether they are developing electrical grid energy storage in their existing expended oil and gas caverns along with mineshafts and mines for pumped-storage hydroelectricity where ordinary hydroelectric power is unavailable. Tim AFS (talk) 09:08, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

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New Yorker article
A current article in The New Yorker describes how the United Arab Emirates paid a Swiss firm to destroy an oil-trading firm using negative PR, in part by editing Wikipedia articles about it. Some of this article seems to be part of that effort.

The article, titled "The Dirty Secrets of a Smear Campaign" says that the perpetrators planted articles about Hazim Nada in the web site Africa Intelligence, which is not a reliable source, though it is treated here as though it were.

This article currently includes this sentence:
 * Sonatrach PDG Abdelmoumen Ould Kaddour was let go a few days after Algerian Vice Minister of Defence Ahmed Gaïd Salah announced the launch of an investigation into the links between executives of Sonatrach and Lord Energy founder, Hazim Nada, who is the son of Youssef Nada, a high-level executive of the Muslim Brotherhood, whose companies have been accused by Bush the younger of financing Al-Qaeda.

This is the sort of thing the New Yorker article is talking about. Also, there shouldn't be a comma after "founder". TypoBoy (talk) 23:36, 27 March 2023 (UTC)


 * There is a French language Wikipedia article about Lord Energy. But has there ever been an English language article? Perhaps it has been deleted? 72.14.126.22 (talk) 23:45, 28 March 2023 (UTC)

Remove French name of the company from the article
Sonatrach does not operate in French and French has no official status in the country it operates in. The argument about it being an acronym is weak because other companies like Aramco (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Aramco), which use acronyms that come from other languages do not list other languages or even detail what the acronym stands for.

Because of that, I propose completely removing the French name of the company from the article. Kurdish Elf (talk) 02:33, 1 April 2024 (UTC)


 * Sonatrach does not operate in French its website says otherwise.
 * The French is how the company has been describing itself since the 1960s. Again, its website is there for anyone who's really interested in the company. M.Bitton (talk) 03:30, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Disagreed. That website is meant for foreigners. Sonatrach does not operate in French and is based in a country where French has absolutely no status as an official language. Kurdish Elf (talk) 04:46, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Aramco has "Arabian-American Oil Company" in parentheses. Iskandar323 (talk) 04:30, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
 * It is mentioned as being formerly named that lower in the page. The name is translated to Arabic but the English name is nowhere to be seen in the first sentence.
 * We should keep this consistent across articles. Kurdish Elf (talk) 04:48, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Aramco does have the original full name there in the first sentence, and its current acronym form is not translated into Arabic, but merely transliterated into it. Just as Sonatrach is a french acronym that is merely transliterated into Arabic. If you have a problem with the company's name, perhaps take it up with their marketing department and suggest it rebrand to something less colonial. As it is, the name is what it is. Iskandar323 (talk) 12:12, 1 April 2024 (UTC)