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Cekhira
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Cekhira 

(also al-Sukhayrah, La Skhira), a port in Tunisia on the Gulf of Gabès. Population, approximately 10,000 (1970). Cekhira is the terminus of an oil pipeline running 775 km to In Amenas in the Algerian Sahara; the pipeline has a 115-km branch running to al-Borma in the Tunisian Sahara. Other pipelines include Douleb-Cekhira (165 km) and Sidi el Itayem-Cekhira (81 km). Oil is exported; the turnover in 1972 was 14.3 million tons.



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million dinars), the Skhira refinery worth 842 million Euros (1,515.
The Chairman and CEO of STIR, Ali Labiadh, is concentrating on a project to upgrade and expand the country's only oil refinery at Bizerte and on an export refinery to be built at La Skhira oil terminal with a capacicy of 6-8m t/y (see down15TunisRefPetchApr7-08).
The oil products are stored at a regional depot in La Skhira oil terminal.
 
 
 
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