Tunisia: OMV’s Nawara gas project gets green light

The government has given the go-ahead for OMV’s €500m ($680m) investment in the Nawara gas development project, which will bring gas up from fields in the south of Tunisia by pipeline to a treatment facility at Gabés in the north. The project is a central element of the government’s attempts to establish domestic gas production which will go some way to reducing dependence on expensive Algerian imports. The advance of the project is an important milestone both for Entreprise Tunisienne d’Activités Pétrolières (Etap) and OMV.