Tunisia’s power output increases 6% y/y in 2025

Tunisia’s electricity production increased by 6% year-on-year (y/y) in 2025, reaching around 20,500 GW-hours, while output allocated for domestic consumption rose by 2% over the same period, Erem News reported on February 17, citing data from the December 2025 energy outlook bulletin issued by the National Observatory of Energy and Mines.

The North African country’s power generation fleet relied almost entirely on natural gas, which accounted for approximately 94% of total electricity production. Electricity imports, particularly from Algeria, covered about 11% of national demand.

However, Tunisia’s commercial dry gas production declined by 10% y/y in 2025 to around 1.13mn tonnes of oil equivalent (toe), down from 1.23mn toe in 2024, according to figures reported by TAP. The drop was largely attributed to continued output declines at mature fields and the absence of major new drilling and exploration projects.

National oil production also fell by 12% to roughly 1.2mn toe in 2025, compared with 1.4mn toe a year earlier. Meanwhile, gas liquids production, including output from the Gabès processing plant, slipped by 4% y/y to around 130,000 toe.

The hydrocarbons exploration and production sector in Tunisia has faced mounting challenges in recent years, including global oil price volatility, the after-effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and the impact of the Russia–Ukraine conflict, alongside natural field depletion.

In 2025, Tunisia drilled several development wells under the Chergui licence and began drilling operations at the Jebel Grouz permit, in addition to an exploratory well at Sidi Marzouk that was later reclassified as a development well.