Energy
From The Report: Tunisia 2017
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While Tunisia has far fewer oil and gas reserves than its neighbours, it was not until the late 1990s and early 2000s that the country’s demand began surpassing domestic production. It was then that Tunisia became dependent on foreign energy imports, and began diversifying its energy mix through renewables and efficiency campaigns to curb consumption. Local authorities are now looking to revise Tunisia’s hydrocarbons code and further promote foreign investment in the country’s relatively small oil and gas industry, especially given the low lifting and breakeven costs. Nevertheless, developing local energy production through renewables and domestic oil and gas requires a number of reforms that have proven challenging to implement against the backdrop of post-revolutionary governmental and economic uncertainties.

This chapter contains an interview with Saïd Mazigh, General Manager, Carthage Power Company.

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Overview

Lighting the way: A renewed interest in investment is set to reduce the supply gap
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While Tunisia has far fewer oil and gas reserves than its neighbours in the region, it was not until the late 1990s and early 2000s that the country’s demand began surpassing domestic production. It was then that Tunisia became dependent on foreign energy imports, and began diversifying its energy mix through renewables and energy efficiency campaigns to curb consumption. Local authorities are now looking to revise Tunisia’s hydrocarbons code and further promote foreign investment in…

Interview

New growth opportunities: Saïd Mazigh, General Manager, Carthage Power Company (CPC), on privatisation and renewable energy
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Ineterview: Saïd Mazigh Why is it important to further privatise the electricity market in Tunisia? SAID MAZIGH: The government has already decided to modestly privatise the electricity market through its public-private partnership with CPC, but it must now decide how this market will develop going forward. Public investment will not be sufficient to meet either the country’s current energy needs or its growing future energy demand. Private investment complements public investment and plays…

Analysis

In the pipeline: Large-scale infrastructure project nears completion
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In 2006 large reserves of natural gas and condensate were discovered in the Jenein Sud permit in the Ghadames basin. Since then, the Tunisian National Oil Company (Entreprise Tunisienne d’Activités Pétrolières, ETAP) and Austrian oil and gas company OMV have worked to industrialise the field as part of the Nawara Development Project by surveying and drilling in the area, with eight exploratory wells dug between 2008 and 2010. To help facilitate the necessary transport and processing…