Report on the oil extracted from the Algerian Sahara. In Touggourt, Max Lejeune, minister of the Sahara, attends the filling of tank cars. A train transports oil to Philippeville on the coast. In Paris, in a laboratory, presentation of a sample of Saharan oil that is burned on a plate.
Report made on behalf of the General Government of Algeria, on the trip of the Minister of the Interior, Léon Martinaud-Deplat in Algeria. El-Goléa is one of the stages of the minister’s trip. After greeting the local notables, a visit near an artesian well, on the Bordj, He attends the drilling work of the first oil fields.
France’s presence in the Algerian Sahara goes beyond geopolitical challenges, it is also an economic and energy asset. Analysis in pictures with the facilities of the French Oil Company (ancestor of Total).
Le 13 février 1960, le premier essai de bombe atomique française a eu lieu dans le sud du Sahara algérien, sur la base de Reggane. Ce document télévisé explique toute la mise en place et l'organisation de la base de Reggane et le dispositif au point zéro. Il se félicite de la première étape réussie de la France dans le cadre de son programme nucléaire militaire.