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In a widely expected development, given their plunging bilateral relations, Algeria has withdrawn Sonatrach’s exports via the GME pipeline, which delivers natural gas to Morocco and Spain – posing a range of geopolitical and energy supply questions, write Dominic Dudley and Jon Marks.

Algeria | Morocco
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Plans for the Nigeria-Morocco gas pipeline project have edged forward, with the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) announcing a call for expressions of interest for two consultancy contracts on the grandiose scheme.

Nigeria | Morocco
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The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) is making a new push to convince governments around Africa to support wind, with the launch of the Africa WindPower initiative on 30 September. The new body is backed by private developers and equipment suppliers such as GE Renewable Energy, Siemens Gamesa, Enel Green Power and EDF Renewables and supported by GET Invest, a European programme to promote renewable energy in developing countries.

Kenya | Mozambique | Morocco
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Plans for a radical restructuring of Morocco’s power and water sector is expected to be near the top of the agenda for incoming energy transition and sustainable development minister Leila Benali and new public works and water minister Nizar Baraka. The plans cover both state utility Office National de l’Electricité et de l’Eau Potable (ONEE) and the regional utilities (régies) and include the creation of 12 new regional companies to tackle chronic debt problems in the sector and allow public services to explore new project financing options.

Morocco
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New prime minister Aziz Akhannouch has thought hard about forming an administration that can drive the next phase of social and economic reform after the Islamist PJD government was eviscerated in elections. The business magnate has excited Morocco’s economic elite by forming a government filled with liberal-minded individuals and promising to deliver King Mohammed’s new development model, whose success could persuade alienated voters that the Makhzen really can offer a significantly better future for the majority, write Our Casablanca Correspondent and Jon Marks

Morocco
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UAE-based Emirates Telecommunications Group Company (Etisalat) has raised its stake in Maroc Telecom Group to 53%, in a $505m deal that underlines Abu Dhabi’s significant positioning in the kingdom – the most prominent investor is Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (Taqa) which owns the 2,056MW capacity Jorf Lasfar thermal power plant.

Morocco
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Politics in Algiers and Rabat are driving hugely ambitious – and arguably less than necessary – schemes to pipe gas from West Africa, supplying northern Nigeria and Niger in Algeria’s project and an array of potential markets along the proposed Moroccan route.

Nigeria | Algeria | Morocco
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The Moroccan electorate delivered a crushing blow to the Parti de la Justice et du Développement (PJD) on 8 September, as the ‘moderate Islamist’ party, which has led the government since 2011, won just 12 of the 395 seats in the House of Representatives (lower house of parliament). With a small number of votes still to be counted as African Energy went to press, the likely outcome was a new coalition led by overtly pro-business parties with close ties to the palace.

Morocco
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Moroccan Agency for Sustainable Energy (Masen) head Mustapha Bakkoury has made a return to public life after a period in isolation, following royal displeasure at his performance. A number of observers told African Energy that high-profile official public outings meant Bakkoury was back in business.

Morocco
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AIM-listed Europa Oil & Gas (Holdings) (EOG) is seeking a farm-out of its Inezgane offshore permit, in the Agadir Basin, which it was awarded in November 2019.

Morocco
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There have been further delays to the 400MW first phase of the Noor PV II project. The Moroccan Agency for Sustainable Energy (Masen) had invited the 32 prequalified bidders to submit bids by 2 August, but that has been extended to end-September – the third such delay since expressions of interest were finally launched in January.

Morocco
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London AIM-listed Sound Energy announced that its Sound Energy Morocco East (Semel) subsidiary’s micro liquified natural gas (mLNG) phase one development plan at Tendrara had secured a binding ten-year, take-or-pay LNG sale and purchase agreement with, and equity placing by, major Moroccan corporate Afriquia Gaz.

Morocco
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Predator Oil and Gas Holdings reported “good gas shows” from drilling of MOU-1 in the onshore Guercif licence area in northern Morocco, adjacent to the Maghreb-Europe gas pipeline. The Jersey-based company said on 6 July the results supported the pre-drill geological interpretation of a deep gas ‘kitchen’ connected to shallower reservoirs.

Morocco
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 In the wake of a diplomatic crisis involving migrant flows and the disputed Western Sahara, a recent report from Madrid suggested Morocco’s King Mohammed VI had called an end to negotiations on the extension of gas supply contracts via the 11.5 bcm/yr capacity Maghreb-Europe gas pipeline (GME).

Algeria | Morocco
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Having signalled over two years ago that the government was scaling down its much-anticipated integrated liquefied natural gas (LNG) scheme – whose original timetable envisaged imports of 5bcm/yr (at one stage increased to 10bcm/yr) from 2021-22 – a more pragmatic project, involving floating regasification and storage units (FRSUs) has finally reached the call for expressions of interest (EoI) phase.

Morocco