Tunisia- National natural gas production increases by 62%

The Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mines announced natural gas resources increased to  62% from the same period a year earlier. Resources reached 1,049 thousand tonnes of oil equivalent at the conclusion of April 2021.

This is revealed by the colossal contribution of the Nawara field, thanks to which the decline in production in the other fields was offset as well as by the rise in the royalty on the transit of Algerian gas by more than 190%.

As for the national production of crude oil, the latter grew by 16%, to 655 thousand tons at the end of April 2021, while the national production of primary LPG has grownby 23%, according to the same source.