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Oil Companies Reassessing their Investments in Tunisia

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Posted On 11 March 2015

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For weeks now rumors of major oil companies preparing to leave Tunisia have circulated in the central administration and in the media. There is no concrete information about many of such exits, but rumors are swirling specifically about Shell and ENI, while the British EnQuest divested from a small project in Tunisia in early February 2015.

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