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Issue 440 - 10 June 2021

Tunisia: Panoro drilling delay

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Covid-19 and slow bureaucracy have held up UK-based, Oslo Stock Exchange-listed Panoro Energy’s plans to drill a well on its Sfax exploration permit this year, chief executive John Hamilton said announcing Q1 2021 results on 27 May

Tunisia
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As the hype around hydrogen gets ever louder, governments and developers are putting forward grandiose plans to manufacture green hydrogen – ‘the new oil and gas’ – across the continent. African Energy has been sceptical about the hydrogen boom’s relevance to economies that are hard pressed to finance basic needs, but high hopes are being generated in countries like Mauritania and Namibia, where schemes to install an unimaginable 65GW of hydrogen-driven capacity are promised, writes John Hamilton.

Egypt | DR Congo | Namibia | Mauritania | Morocco | South Africa | Tunisia | Western Sahara (under UN mandate)
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The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) expects to solicit bids from 15 July, for award by end-2022, for a five-year contract in its $50m-99.9m estimated cost/amount range to assist the government in its efforts to meet increasing electricity demand and promote energy conservation.

Tunisia
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The impact of structural reform and the energy transition is markedly different around the continent. North Africa experienced a sharp – if probably temporary – slowdown in the growth of renewables last year, when the Maghreb and Egypt accounted for 4.3GW of the 7.7GW added on the continent, including 3.1GW of new gas capacity. 

Libya | Algeria | Morocco | Tunisia | Western Sahara (under UN mandate)
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Shell has confirmed its intention to withdraw from its upstream positions in Tunisia, following widespread speculation. The Anglo-Dutch major has told the Ministry of Energy, Mines and Energy Transition it will hand back the Miskar concession when the licence expires in June 2022, and it has requested an early hand back of the Hasdrubal licence at the same time. This was confirmed by the ministry’s director general of hydrocarbons on 4 May.

Tunisia
Issue 438 - 13 May 2021

Tunisia: IMF deal inches closer

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A new International Monetary Fund (IMF) agreement to underpin a faltering economy is becoming more likely as terms are hammered out by a government terrified of being seen to be caving in to the demands of perceived powerful foreign influences and an international community keen not to be seen dictating to a government that emerged from the 2011 ‘Arab Spring’ revolts as a rare functioning democracy.

Tunisia
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The launch of a project to bring renewable power generated in the southern part of Morocco directly to the UK is one of five high-voltage direct current (HVDC) interconnections now planned between North Africa and Europe. Alongside the Moroccan Xlinks project, similar schemes in Tunisia and Egypt are united by the common conceptual approach of enabling European countries to replace the 60% of primary energy now imported as fossil fuels. However, the underlying political and commercial motivations, as well as the technological details, differ in each case.

Egypt | Morocco | Tunisia
Issue 437 - 29 April 2021

Downsizing the watchword for Tunisia

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Established majors are departing in a shake-up of the oil and gas sector. Optimists say this leaves the path open to independents that are showing more passion for Tunisia’s maturing upstream, writes James Gavin.

Tunisia
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The start of construction at ABO Wind’s Mornag Wind scheme has been delayed and the company has confirmed it has “quite a way to go” before work can begin, due to challenges around the location of the project and other issues. “We had secured remuneration for the 30MW project in a tender, but later found out that we would have to move the project to a different site due to aviation restrictions,” a spokeswoman said.

Tunisia
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European funding should help to stabilise the state power utility Steg as it seeks to attract private investment into renewable energy schemes. Cash flows have been hard hit by coronavirus, but a recovery roadmap aims to improve the situation, writes Dan Marks

Tunisia
Issue 432 - 11 February 2021

Tunisia: Solar tender deadline extended

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The Ministry of Energy, Mines and Renewable Energies has extended the submission deadline for the Small-Scale Solar PV Tender Round IV  project. Proposals were initially due by 9 February, but are now expected by 25 March. The programme aims to develop 70MW of solar PV plants.

Tunisia
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Crude oil production in Tunisia’s southern fields has resumed after a hiatus of nearly four months, following an agreement between the government and the local Kamour Movement protest group, which on 16 July began a sit-in blockade of the El Kamour processing plant that serves fields in Tataouine and other southern governorates. Mainly by closing the key SP4 pumping station, the government calculates the El Kamour stand-off – over local frustrations at lack of jobs and other benefits coming from fields that represent around 42% of national crude production and 37% of natural gas – has cost around TD374m ($137m).

Tunisia
Issue 424 - 08 October 2020

Tunisia: New 70MW solar tender

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The Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mines has invited bids by 9 February 2021 for the development and construction of 70MWp of solar PV power capacity on a build-own-operate basis as part of the country’s renewables procurement programme. The tender covers the construction of six solar farms of 10MW each and ten smaller plants with individual capacities of up to 1MW. Selected bidders will be awarded long-term power purchase agreements with state-owned utility Société Tunisienne de l’Electricité et du Gaz.

Tunisia
Issue 423 - 24 September 2020

Tunisia: Solar PPA

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A 10MWp solar PV project in Gabès has signed a power purchase agreement with Société Tunisienne de l’Electricité et du Gaz. The project is owned by France’s Akuo Energy Afrique in a consortium with its Tunisian partners HBG Holding, owned by the Hédi Bouchamaoui family, and Immobilière Chaabane group company Nour Energy.

Tunisia
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A power purchase agreement (PPA) has been signed with Société Tunisienne de l’Electricité et du Gaz for a 10MWp solar PV project in Gabès, Tunisia. The project is owned by France’s Akuo Energy Sasu, Hédi Bouchamaoui Group (HBG) Holding, a diversified group owned by the Hedi Bouchamaoui family, and Imoobilière Chaabane group company Nour Energy.

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