Hassi RʾMel
Algeria
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Hassi RʾMel, town, containing one of the world’s major natural-gas fields (discovered in 1956), north-central Algeria. It lies 37 miles (60 km) northwest of Ghardaïa. It is also an intermediate stage on the natural-gas and oil pipelines running from Hassi Messaoud to the northern Algeria coastal cities of Arzew, Algiers, and Skikda.