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Qatar has widened the gap with its competitors over the supply of Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) to Morocco after the Kingdom’s government council adopted a memorandum of understanding in this regards. The memorandum of understanding, signed during the 6th High Joint Moroccan-Qatari Commission in Doha last April, provides for bilateral cooperation in the fields of […]
Chariot Oil & Gas Limited has been awarded by Moroccan authorities a 75 pc interest and operatorship of the Mohammedia Offshore Exploration Permits I – III, which span over 4,600 square kilometers. The company says the area contains a number of proven and potential play systems. “Chariot is pleased to be able to convert the […]
Nouakchott and Dakar have come to an agreement to work jointly and share returns of gas production off their coasts by the American energy company, Kosmos, reports say. Presidents of both countries have reportedly given instructions to their respective energy companies; Petrosen in Senegal and Smhpm of Mauritania to continue working with the American giant […]
Morocco and Portugal are studying the possibility of an undersea power connection, which would be the second Europe-Africa link. The two countries have signed in this regard a feasibility study, which will cost $455 million. At present, Portugal exports its excess energy to its neighbor Spain, which then feeds into the European system via France. […]
The Kingdom of Morocco will launch production of its locally made electric buses next year, Head of the country’s Energy investment Company (SIE,) a key actor in the project, reveals. The project falls into the Kingdom’s promotion of the transports facility policy, says Ahmed Baroudi. “The industrial project aims at producing last generation of (Ultra-Light) […]
Egypt’s energy concern could be about to be over following the discovery of a new natural gas field on the Nile Delta coast by Eni and British Petroleum (BP.) The regional BP president for North Africa, Hesham Mekawi, said the latest discovery located 12km away from the shoreline “is the third discovery along the Nooros […]
Collapse of oil revenues and sharp increase in importations have caused a huge dent in Algeria’s foreign reserves with figures pointing at $58 billion loss since 2014; year of exceptional growth, the country’s Prime Minister said on Sunday. Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal at a tripartite meeting including government, worker’s syndicate and employers, indicated that Algeria […]
The American power and energy giant, General Electric, has decided to club together with Pan-African multi-sector business services company Mara Group to make more inroads in Africa through investment in infrastructure, a domain still infant on the black continent. General Electric plans to invest billions of dollars in Africa’s infrastructure business industry, which according to […]
Morocco has called on the international community to pool efforts to implement all the provisions of the Paris Agreement on climate change and expressed hope for increased global awareness as to the need to combat the phenomenon. The call was launched by King Mohammed VI in a speech delivered at the signing ceremony of the […]
Italian multinational oil and gas company Eni has sealed a Farm-Out Agreement with Chariot Oil & Gas, which enabled Eni to get operatorship and a 40 pc stake in the Rabat Deep Offshore exploration permits I-VI, Morocco’s offshore. The deal, which still needs approval of the Moroccan authorities, allows Eni to operate in an area […]