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Chariot reports new gas find in Morocco

MOROCCO AFRICAN market-focused energy firm Chariot operational and logistical challenges posed by
said earlier this week that it had made a signif- the current pandemic.”
icant gas discovery the Anchois-2 well, drilled Pouroulis also pointed to some of Chariot’s
at the Lixus block offshore Morocco’s northern other successes in Morocco. “With the recently
Larache region. The company’s shares rallied on announced key terms of gas offtake with a
Monday morning, January 10, in reaction to this prominent international energy group, interest
discovery, which was announced in a statement. from two highly regarded institutional lenders
The new discovery was made during Chari- to provide debt finance, an ongoing collabora-
ot’s offshore drilling operations under the Lixus tion with a leading constructor of offshore gas
licence, in which the firm has a 75% interest. The projects and now this successful gas well result,
remaining 25% is held by Morocco’s National the Anchois project is getting closer to help-
Hydrocarbons and Mining Office (ONHYM). ing provide a clean transitional fuel to support
The company said the discovery was beyond Morocco’s industrial and economic growth,” he
expectations, with the thickness of the newly stated. “We look forward to providing a further
discovered gas reservoir being more than 100 market update once the appraisal campaign has
metres, almost twice the amount found while completed.” ™
drilling the Anchois-1 well.
Chariot and OHNYM have said they believe
Anchois holds at least 1 trillion cubic feet
(28.3bn cubic metres) in recoverable reserves.
They intend to drill two development wells at the
field and use subsea tie-ins to connect them to a
subsea manifold outfitted with a 40-km flowline
that pumps gas to an onshore processing facility.
This facility, in turn, will be linked to an exist-
ing trunk pipeline that is used to export North
African gas to Europe via a 40-km onshore pipe.
Adonis Pouroulis, the acting CEO of Char-
iot, expressed satisfaction with the find, saying:
“I am delighted to announce that Chariot, as
well as conducting a successful appraisal well
operation, has made a significant gas discovery
at the Anchois-2 well which materially exceeds
our expectations. We continue to conduct fur-
ther analysis on the data collected from the well,
but as it stands, we believe the result is transfor-
mational for the company. This is a tremendous
outcome, and I would like to thank ONHYM,
our partners on the licence and everyone
involved for their invaluable support, which
enabled the well to be drilled safely, success-
fully and on time during a time of significant The Anchois-2 well encountered a sizeable gas reservoir (Image: Chariot)

Saipem charters floating hotel

vessel for GTA offshore gas project

SENEGAL/MAURITANIA SAIPEM, the Italian oilfield services provider The charter provides for the deployment
(OSP) that is acting as general contractor for the of the Edda Fides, an accommodation vessel
Grand Tortue/Ahmeyim (GTA) natural gas and owned by Edda Accommodation (Norway), at
LNG project, has chartered an offshore accom- the block beginning in the second half of this
modation vessel for the offshore block astride year. The vessel will remain at GTA for a period
the Senegal-Mauritania maritime border. of six months firm.

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