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Article: TUNISIA - The Gas Market.
- Article from:
- APS Review Downstream Trends
- Article date:
- April 3, 2006
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Town gas was introduced to Tunis in 1870 by the French colonial authorities, but it was on a very small scale. The first gas distribution system was built in 1955, as the small Jebel Abderrahman gas field was developed. Associated gas from el-Borma oilfield was first utilised in 1972 for LPG production and other uses.
The first 12 BCM/year phase of the TransMed gas pipeline from Algeria to Italy, passing through Tunisia, began supplying the local market in 1983, and its second phase was completed in 1994. From June 1995, Tunisia began consuming gas from the giant Miskar gas field which now supplies more than 50% of the country's energy needs. In 1996, the Zinnia ...