The African Bank of Development (AfDB) has approved a US$75m loan to Tunisian oil and gas company Entreprise tunisienne d'activités pétrolières (ETAP), to develop the Nawara gas field jointly operated with OMV Tunisia (50-50). The project involves the construction of gas transportation and treatment facilities to bring stranded and associated gas from the south of Tunisia (Nawara concession and others) to market. It comprises a 2.7 mcm/d Central Processing Facility (CPF) that will collect gas received from the Nawara field to be compressed prior to transport via the gas pipeline for the commercial gas and the Trapsa oil pipeline for the condensates; a 370 km pipeline for rich gas, condensates and commercial products with a design capacity of 10 mcm/day to Gabès; and a gas treatment plant (GTP) located on the coast in the Ghannouch industrial area near Gabès that will produce marketable products (natural gas, propane and butane).