Show Notes

This week, we review and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ) episode 32 - "Across the Salt Lake” (塩の湖を越えて) discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on pipelines in Algeria.

- About the real Chott Melrhir.

- Detailed overview of Algeria's hydrocarbon industry from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).

- Less detailed overview from OPEC.

- Map of the major external pipelines in Algeria. The purple line leading northeast from Hassi R'Mel is the Trans-Mediterranean Pipeline, and the light green area where it passes near to the Tunisian border is the rough location of Chott Melrhir.

- Map of Algeria's domestic pipelines.

- News articles about Sonatrach's on-again-off-again plans to build a refinery in Biskra, near the site of the future one the Karaba forces are guarding in Gundam ZZ:

2012: Algeria Advances Refining Expansion With Start Of Biskra Construction

2016: Algeria’s Sonatrach lets contracts for three new refineries

2018: Plans for new oil refineries inch forward

2020: Algeria’s Sonatrach lets contract for grassroots refinery noting that plans for the Biskra refinery seem to have stalled

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