Tunisia

Governments in Cairo and Tunis are talking a good game on ending energy subsidies. But popular resistance could yet throw efforts off track.

Tunisia will welcome an IMF mission on 27 March to discuss the fifth review of its $2.9bn program. The...

Tunisia on 12 March awarded six licenses to build 10MW solar PV parks. The awards, worth around TD125mn ($41mn),...

While the long-delayed Nawara project will give a much-needed boost to Tunisia's gas output from late-2019, Tunisia will still be reliant on Algeria for over half its demand.

Tunisia’s 38,400 b/d of crude output in 2018 was the lowest since the country began producing in 1966. Scant investment plans mean the decline will continue.

Tunisia will have to wait until at least late-2019 for its long-delayed 85mn cfd Nawara gas project to come...

Tunisia’s trade deficit soared 12% to a near-record $7.2bn for 2018, with a record 33% of this accounted for by oil and gas imports. With dwindling oil and gas output and higher oil prices, Tunisia is increasingly at the mercy of the global energy markets.

Tunisia has awarded 120MW of wind projects worth TD400mn ($135mn) to four European firms (see table). This brings to...

Tunisia’s powerful UGTT union staged a nationwide strike on 17 January hitting the country’s transport, hospitals, schools and state...

With peak demand creeping up to installed capacity Tunisia is in a race against time to beef up its powergen fleet. Renewables are core to plans but are well behind.

The struggling Tunisian economy will get an $830mn (TD2.45bn) financial aid boost from Saudi Arabia, PM Youssef Chahed told...

Tunisia gas output slumped to 170mn cfd in October. The only lower figure since Shell’s key offshore Hasdrubal field...