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Morocco has given a go-ahead to a 270 MW wind farm in Jbel lahdid near Essaouira for a total cost of 2.8 billion dirhams ($314 million) as part of its plan to promote green energy. To that end a deal was signed between Moroccan energy company Nareva Holding and Italian renewable energy corporation Enel Green […]
The UK Chariot Oil & Gas company has secured a new offshore exploration license in Northern Morocco. The formal award of the “Rissana” license is expected in 2021, says the oil company. Under terms of the agreement reached, 75pc interest and operatorship of the Rissana licence will be awarded to a wholly owned subsidiary of […]
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has endorsed the Moroccan-Nigerian off-shore on-shore gas pipeline that will benefit 13 African countries instead of the Algerian ink on paper proposal of a tans-Saharan pipeline. A meeting was held in Burkina Faso on December 9-10 in the capital Ouagadougou by the ECOWAS’ energy ministers in a […]
Morocco said it targets a reduction of 20% in its energy consumption by 2030 in tandem with a plan to generate 52% of its electricity needs from renewables, Energy Minister Aziz Rabbah said. Morocco has launched an energy transition process in 2009 to develop renewable energies and energy efficiency while strengthening regional energy integration, said […]
An Italian company operating in Algeria is currently victim of blackmail from some corrupt individuals of the North African country’s energy giant Sonatrach after landing a major energy contract, Algérie Part reports. Maire Tecnimont, an engineering and consultancy company present in Algeria for several years, last month won a tender launched by Sonatrach for the […]
Algerian Foreign Minister Sabri Boukadoum pinned high hopes on his recentb visit to African heavyweight Nigeria to gain some support for Algeria’s anti-Moroccan stance in support of Polisario separatism and banditry. But, he returned empty-handed save some ink on paper regarding projects to which both Nigeria and Algeria never showed genuine interest. Pro-regime Algerian media […]
The President of the Moroccan Electricity Regulatory Authority Abdellatif Bardach was elected Vice-President of the Association of Mediterranean Energy Regulators (MEDREG). This came during the 30th General Assembly of MEDREG held remotely on Wednesday. The General Assembly also elected the members of the Presidency Council, composed of the President and three Vice-Presidents, for the 2020-2022 […]
Morocco is about to draw a roadmap for the exploration of marine current energy, announced the Minister of Energy. A specialized commission, including representatives of the energy and mining departments, the Moroccan Agency for Sustainable Energy (MASEN), the National Office of Electricity and Drinking Water (ONEE), and the Solar Energy and New Energies Research Institute […]
Many years before the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, Morocco has adopted an inclusive development model based on renewable energies and a sustainable vision, said Chief of the Moroccan Agency for Solar Energy (MASEN), Mustapha Bakkoury. In an Op-Ed published by “the Parliament Magazine”, Bakkoury said despite Morocco’s swift and exceptional management of the pandemic, […]
Egypt aims to increase gas daily exports to 1 billion cubic feet (bcf), Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Tarek el Molla said in an interview while stressing some challenges. Molla told Sky News Arabia that Egypt’s current gas daily exports stand at 300-800 million cubic feet while the production is 72 bcf. The […]