Rio, 9/15/2003 (Agencia Brasil-ABR) - Petrobrás has announced it will drill for petroleum in Algeria in partnership with the local state-owned Sonnatrach. Minister of Mines and Energy, Dilma Rousseff has just returned from a visit to that country and reports that one objective of the endeavor is to reverse a trade deficit with Algeria now running at US$700 million annually. (AB)