Anchois15 Jun 2022 21:08
This is from March 2021 :
GlobalData's latest report, “Morocco Exploration & Production,” reveals that Morocco has almost 700 billion cubic feet of gas reserves sitting in developments. Two recent projects, Tendrara, and Anchois, could help the country achieve gas extraction at 70 million cubic feet per day (MMCFD) within the next five years.
While Tendrara can expect “productive growth” by mid-2022, and Anchois “will be the largest gas development undertaken in Morocco to date, by far,” Santiago Varela, an analyst at GlobalData, believes that the main obstacle for both projects is financing.
“For both projects, the major obstacle is obtaining adequate financing, since neither of the two operators have sufficient funds to undertake these developments alone,” noted Varela.
Financing for these kinds of large-scale projects is usually difficult to secure, even more so in Morocco.
“Morocco has failed to develop its major gas discoveries to date, mainly due to the fact that oil has been the preferred resource over gas,” explained the analyst. Nonetheless, “with the focus turning to gas, an attractive fiscal framework and strong domestic demand, international operators are pushing hard to develop the country’s resources,” Varela continued.
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Things have moved on considerably since this write up in Morocco World News