Tunisian company for petroleum Activities (ETAP), the national oil company, was created by Law n° 72-22 of10th March 1972 in order to increase control and actively and directly participate in all hydrocarbons related operations.

Its initial objective primarily focused on:

• Undertake studies in petroleum-related sector.


• Tunisian executives learning and development in various oil industries.


• Possible intervention in generally all operations, notably commercial, industrial, real estate, capital and financial relating directly or indirectly to hydrocarbons sector.

The focus of the current mission is on:

• Promoting hydrocarbon sector in Tunisia.


• Management of national patrimony.


• Conducting studies of developing discoveries.


• Developing oil and gas productions, in which ETAP is partner.


• Promoting and developing marginal fields.


• Supplying national market with natural gas and crude oil.


• Providing techno-economic projects related to oil, gas and related industries.


• Providing services in fields of seismic processing, deposits simulation and exploration-production laboratories.