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Chariot gains access to GME pipeline

under tie-in agreement with ONHYM

MOROCCO UK-BASED Chariot revealed on September 7 international GME pipeline, we are well placed
that it had gained access to a natural gas pipe- to bring gas online as quickly as possible.”
line under a new agreement with Morocco’s Anchois lies within the offshore Lixus block.
national oil company (NOC), L’Office National Chariot has said that the field contains at least
des Hydrocarbures et des Mines (ONHYM). 637bn cubic feet (18.04bn cubic metres) in 2C
In a statement, Chariot explained that its reserves, and it hopes to begin production in
tie-in agreement would allow gas from its off- 2024.
shore Anchois field to be loaded into the Gaz Equity in the project is divided between
Maghreb-Europe (GME) pipeline for transpor- Chariot, with 75%, and ONHYM, with 25%.
tation to various buyers. ONHYM is the opera- Earlier this year, the partners hired a consor-
tor of the Moroccan section of GME, which was tium formed by Schlumberger (US) and Subsea
built to pump Algerian gas along a route that 7 (Luxembourg) to provide front-end engineer-
passes through the country and across the Med- ing and design (FEED) services for Anchois. ™
iterranean Sea to Spain.
Chariot did not say whether it intended to
use its access to the GME to export future pro-
duction to the European market via Spain. How-
ever, it did indicate that the tie-in deal had lent
extra support to the Anchois project.
Pierre Raillard, the head of Chariot’s gas divi-
sion and country director for Morocco, stressed
this point.
“I am very pleased to announce the signing of
this pipeline tie-in agreement with our partner
on the Lixus licence, ONHYM,” he said. “This
moves Chariot a step closer towards delivering
first gas from the Anchois gas field to poten-
tial customers using the GME pipeline. The
Anchois gas project is a highly strategic asset,
given the continued volatility of global energy
markets, and combined with its proximity to the The Anchois field lies in close proximity to the GME pipeline (Image: Chariot)

KPC wants to increase transport

and storage tariff for refined fuels

KENYA KENYA Pipeline Co. (KPC) has submitted ease slightly during the 2024-25 financial year
an application to the state energy regulator to to KES5.50 when the firm expects to have com-
increase the transport and storage tariffs that pleted building the pipeline.
petroleum product marketing companies pay. KPC’s Chief Planning Officer Elizabeth
KPC applied to the Energy and Petroleum Akinyi explained that the company had initially
Regulatory Authority (EPRA) for a 13% increase applied for a tariff review in January this year
in transport and storage tariffs to KES5.22 but then amended its request in July in order to
($0.04) per cubic metre per kilometre over the account for the planned investments in the new
2022-23 financial year, compared to the current pipeline.
KES4.61. “In our initial tariff application, we had not
The Standard reported that the tariff will factored in capital for enhancement for the
increase to KES5.53 per cubic metre per kilo- Mombasa-Nairobi line where we plan to install
metre in the 2023-24 financial year but will a new line,” she said earlier this week.

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