- Silence

- The arrival in Martigues Lavera harbor of the tanker President Meny set a landmark:

- for the first time, oil from the Sahara would run in France.

- Joining the pipes that would allow the sending of the 15, 000 tons of oil to the refinery,

- the last junction was established with the far away well in Hassi Messaoud.

- Music

- Between the first spurt of oil in the desert

- and the arrival of the first Saharan oil in the stocking tanks of the refineries of Berre pond,

- it took less than a two-year span.

- But the little modern miracles based on oil would surprise us no more.