RE: Enog28 Nov 2024 09:13
Hi StarB,
I am often wrong but I think in this Enog Morrocco potential negotiation, ENOG's initial position is that due to the contract they have signed, they have time to delay progress - ie if Morrocco dont offer better terms, ENOG can sit on the development - effectively mothballing it, Chariot and Morrocco's aspirations for self produced oil. For how long, who knows but someone in Morrocco will need to explain how the barbarians at the gate effectively were given that contractual right to effectively delay to the boss - uncomfortableness all round - both for the civil servants and even more so the likely scapegoats - Chariot.
So in the meantime ENOG post Morrocco as ongoing operations - just because they have moved resources away from this at present, doesnt mean they have exited. Equally, just because they havent formally exited doesnt mean they intend to continue.
Chariot still the child in this negotiation in that we really dont have any sway at all - one would hope that with their relationship to Morrocco they are assisting in producing the conditions for a renegotiation between the two parties but thats about it - but as per above, they may not be the favourites they once were at present.
Sovereign states dont like to have to bow to trade entities as a rule, but if they dont, their gas production prospects may receive an almighty dent - the scale of which we do not know.