Morocco has long harbored hopes of emulating Mauritania and Senegal to the south with sizable gas discoveries off its Atlantic Coast. But it has little to show from more than a dozen, mostly deepwater, wells over the past 15 or so years (MEES, 15 September 2023).

By last year such ambitions had been downsized to hopes of 100mn cfd output from the 0.64tcf Anchois field in 360metres water depth 40km offshore Morocco’s northern Atlantic coast (see map MEES, 21 March). (CONTINUED - 139 WORDS)