The CEO of the Tunisian Society of Refining Industries (STIR), Fekhta Mahouachi, said that the reserves of petroleum products (Gasoil and Gasoline) are sufficient to cover national needs, for a period of two to two and a half months.
In a media statement, on the sidelines of a visit by journalists to the Company’s headquarters, Stir Bizerte, yesterday Thursday, as part of the second training session on the subject of hydrocarbons in Tunisia, the manager mentioned the programming of the entry of six trucks with a total of 180 thousand tons between diesel (90 thousand tons) and gasoline (90 thousand tons), as of yesterday.
“Despite the repercussions of the Russian-Ukrainian war, Tunisia has retained the confidence of foreign suppliers,” she said, quoted by TAP, noting that payment for the goods occurs one month after unloading, and not after ‘an immediate way’.
Mahouachi wanted to be reassuring, saying in a message to Tunisians that “petroleum products are available, and there is no need to be afraid of the possibility of not being able to get supplies of gasoline, next days”.
“The State is making great efforts to meet the needs for petroleum products, despite the difficulties the country is experiencing,” she added.
The Minister of Industry, Mines and Energy, Neïla Nouira Gongi, affirmed at the end of this training session, “the need to rationalize the use of petroleum products, and to control them”, pointing out that “there is no need for panic, the petrol stations are refueled on a regular basis”.
The Director-General of Hydrocarbons at the Ministry of Industry, Rachid Dali, had previously revealed that “Tunisia is currently using its strategic reserves of petroleum products so that it can meet demand and supply the country with petroleum products”.
“This situation is very critical, it’s as if it were a weekly war,” he said in a statement to TAP, alluding to the scarcity of petroleum products, the current financial situation in Tunisia, and the Ukrainian crisis, so many pressures under which the public treasury is bent.
