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TRIPOLI - Libya plans to build oil and gas pipelines running to Tunisia, as part of plans to boost energy cooperation with its North African neighbour, Energy Minister Taieb al-Safi announced on Monday.
He said that Libya also sought to construct an oil refinery in Skhirat, some 250 kilometres (150 miles) south of Tunis. The projects would be financed by the private sector in the two countries and international investors, the minister said, without giving dates. A tourist zone on their border was also planned. Libya aims in 2007 to increase its investments in Tunisia to three billion dollars, up from the current level of 2.3 billion, he said. In October 2003, Tunis and Tripoli announced plans to set up a joint gas company to deliver supplies from Melilla in Libya to the southern Tunisian region of Gabes. Tunisia, which has limited energy resources, has for the past two decades been used to transit Algerian natural gas by pipeline toward Europe. |
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