The In Amenas gas facility in Algeria, the scene of a terrorist attack in January, will resume full production by the end of 2013.

Youcef Yousfi, Algeria’s minister of energy and mines, said production will be restarted at the end of April and ramped up to full capacity by the end of the year.

The In Amenas gas field is operated by the UK’s BP in partnership with Norway’s Statoil and the Algerian state-owned oil major Sonatrach. It is located close to Algeria’s border with Libya, about 40 kilometres southwest of the town of In Amenas and 1,300km southeast of Algiers.

A total of 37 hostages were killed at the site, as well as 29 terrorists, after a siege that occurred between the 16-19 January.

The siege began with an attack on a bus carrying workers to an airfield. The situation escalated when the terrorists then attacked an accommodation compound and main gas-processing area.