Amilcar Permit | Miskar Gas Field | Miskar Infill Wells | Condensate Pipeline | Hasdrubal Development | Ulysse Permit | Operations Map 

BG Group is the largest producer of gas in Tunisia, the Miskar field supplying approximately 40% of the domestic gas demand. In addition, BG Group holds the Amilcar exploration permit in the Gulf of Gabès with a surface area of 1 016 square kilometres.

Key dates

1989
Acquired Tenneco assets

1996
Miskar field first production

2006
Hasdrubal development
plan approved

2007
Hasdrubal construction commenced

BG Group is operator and joint permit holder with Entreprise Tunisienne d’Activités Pétrolières (ETAP), the Tunisian state-owned company, of the Amilcar exploration permit, offshore Sfax in the Gulf of Gabès. In 2006, BG Group was granted a new extension to this permit, which now expires in December 2009.

Granted from this permit are the Miskar concession (BG Group 100%) and the Hasdrubal concession (BG Group 50% and initial operator, ETAP 50%).

BG Group net production in 2007 was 11.9 mmboe from its Miskar field. Production from this concession commenced in 1996. Gas from the field is processed at the BG Group operated Hannibal plant, 21 kilometres south of Sfax, and sold into the Tunisian gas system. BG Group has a Miskar gas sales contract with the Tunisian state electricity and gas company, Société Tunisienne de l’Electricité et du Gaz (STEG), which gives BG Group the right to supply up to 230 mmscfd on a long-term basis. Offshore compression was commissioned in 2005 to maintain the production plateau of the field.

BG Group is in the process of drilling six wells as part of the Miskar infill drilling campaign, with completion scheduled for 2009. The first well entered production in December 2007 and two more have entered production in 2008. These wells will further extend the field production plateau. Related projects are underway to upgrade the production facilities to process varying compositions of gas and to de-bottleneck the facilities.

A 60 kilometre condensate pipeline was commissioned in 2007 to transport Miskar condensate from Hannibal to La Skhira port.

The Hasdrubal development plan was approved by the Tunisian government in 2006. All major contracts have now been awarded and construction continues. Gross production of around 30 000 boed is expected from this joint project (BG Group 50%, ETAP 50%) in 2009. Once production commences, BG Group anticipates that it will be the largest producer of gas, LPG and liquids in Tunisia.

The Ulysse permit was relinquished in March 2008 and the two outstanding obligation wells transferred to the Amilcar permit.