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Article: TUNISIA - Oil Refining Sector.
- Article from:
- APS Review Downstream Trends
- Article date:
- April 5, 2004
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Tunisia still has to import up to half of its requirements of petroleum products. The country has one refinery, with a capacity of 35,000 b/d, and this sector has not seen changes for decades.
Plans to double the capacity of Bizerte's refinery, proposed in the early 1980s, have been dropped as the project was too expensive for the government. The Ministry of Industry and Energy, in charge of the petroleum resources, has decided to let the private sector expand this business.
Tunisia has a very small petrochemical sector. The chemicals industry has expanded, having registered an average annual growth rate of 13% in the 1990s. This is partly because of ...