Maroc exploration du Gaz/pétrole lourd

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voila ce qui clarifie l´installation de Chevron tant polemiquée..3 new licenses offshore

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Tuesday, 22 January 2013 - 17:54
Chevron Signs Petroleum Deals in Offshore Morocco

  By Saabira Chaudhuri


Chevron Corp. (CVX) has signed petroleum agreements related to three offshore areas in Morocco, a push to expand its footprint in frontier basins.

The oil and gas company has signed the agreements with Morocco's Office National Des Hydrocarbures Et Des Mines which, once awarded, will allow Chevron to acquire seismic data and conduct studies in deepwater areas known as Cap Rhir Deep, Cap Cantin Deep and Cap Walidia Deep located between 60 miles and 120 miles west and northwest of Agadir, Morocco. The areas encompass about 11,300 square miles with average water depths ranging from between 330 feet to 14,700 feet.

"This is an opportunity for Chevron to expand its already strong presence in the region and allows us to acquire further knowledge about promising geology in an emerging area," said Ali Moshiri, president of Chevron Africa and Latin America Exploration and Production Co.

Chevron has a 75% working interest in the three areas, with the Office National Des Hydrocarbures Et Des Mines holding the remaining 25%.

Chevron and other large oil and gas producers have been suffering the impact of a shaky global economy on oil and gas prices. In November, Chevron reported its third-quarter earnings fell 33%, missing expectations as its oil and gas production was disrupted by maintenance, legal issues and storms, and a refinery fire in California caused a sharp drop in fuel sales.

Earlier this month, the second-largest U.S. oil company by market value said it expects its fourth-quarter profit to rise compared with the previous quarter, benefiting from gains on assets and increased U.S. and international production.

Last month, Chevron said its Australian unit made two more natural-gas discoveries in the Exmouth Plateau area of the Carnarvon Basin, a hydrocarbon basin offshore western Australia.

Shares edged down by 55 cents to $114.69 in recent trading. The stock has risen 7.3% in the past 12 months.

WSJ

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Chevron Signs Agreement for Exploration Areas Offshore Morocco
Acreage expands Chevron’s footprint offshore Africa

SAN RAMON, Calif., January 22, 2013 – Chevron Corporation (NYSE:CVX) announced that its subsidiary, Chevron Morocco Exploration Ltd,  signed petroleum agreements with Morocco's Office National Des Hydrocarbures Et Des Mines for three offshore areas.

"We look forward to participating in exploration activities in Morocco, which provides Chevron an opportunity to advance our growth strategy in frontier basins," said George Kirkland, vice chairman, Chevron Corporation.

Once awarded, Chevron will acquire seismic data and conduct studies in deepwater areas known as Cap Rhir Deep, Cap Cantin Deep and Cap Walidia Deep located between 60 and 120 miles (100 to 200 kilometers) west and northwest of Agadir, Morocco. The areas encompass approximately 11,300 square miles (29,200 square kilometers) with average water depths ranging from between 330 feet to 14,700 feet (100 meters to 4500 meters).

Ali Moshiri, president, Chevron Africa and Latin America Exploration and Production Company, said, "This is an opportunity for Chevron to expand its already strong presence in the region and allows us to acquire further knowledge about promising geology in an emerging area."

Chevron Morocco Exploration Ltd has a 75 percent working interest in the three areas, with the Office National Des Hydrocarbures Et Des Mines holding the remaining 25 percent.

http://www.chevron.com/chevron/pressreleases/article/01222013_chevronsignsagreementforexplorationareasoffshoremorocco.news

aujourd'hui sur l'emission grand angle de 2M, un reportage sur le forage de foum draa. Merci a ceux qui tombent dessous de le poster.

PGM

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Statoil Says East Canadian Oil Finds May Signal Moroccan Crude
By Eduard Gismatullin - Nov 29, 2013 10:59 AM GMT+0100

Statoil ASA said oil discoveries off eastern Canada may signal potential crude finds off Morocco in northwest Africa because the regions could have similar geology.

Statoil’s latest Bay du Nord find in Canada’s Flemish Pass Basin may hold as much as 600 million barrels of recoverable oil, according to the company. That part of the North American coast used to be joined with Africa before the continents’ tectonic plates moved apart more than 100 million years ago.

“The analogue is probably more toward northwestern Africa, toward Morocco,” Tim Dodson, vice president of exploration at Stavanger, Norway-based Statoil, said in an interview in London on Nov. 27. “This is where potentially you could look.”

Some of the world’s biggest oil companies, including BP Plc (BP/) and Chevron Corp. (CVX), plan to expand operations off Morocco this decade, while the U.K.’s Cairn Energy Plc (CNE) started a new well there in October. Across the Atlantic Ocean in Canada, Statoil and local partner Husky Energy Inc. made their first discovery at the Flemish Pass’s Mizzen prospect off Newfoundland in 2009.

“Maybe the Mizzen well told them something,” Dodson said of the other oil producers. “It’s pretty strange to me that they are taking positions in Morocco, but then they don’t want to join in Canada, where we have already proven the hydrocarbon system.”

Statoil had sought more partners to share drilling costs prior to the Bay du Nord and Harpoon finds this year, according to Dodson. The company now plans to appraise the discoveries further before offering any stakes in the fields and deciding on their development.

“We have a lot of upside on the structure, which we’ve not assessed yet. This could get bigger,” he said. “We are not about to sell in Canada any time soon.”

A total of about 10 wells in Moroccan waters are planned through 2014, according to Citigroup Inc. Explorers have long operated onshore in the country, drilling 730 wells since 1919, while there are only 40 at sea, according to Oswald Clint, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. in London.

bloomberg

Hier lors du reportage de grand angle , un des responsables a dit que il faut au moins 7 ans pour a peine savoir si ils vont investir lourdement ou pas . Et tenez vous bien 10 a 15 ans pour juste commencer a exporter ! Il m'a casser le moral Lol
La plateforme en mer c'est juste impressionnant .

oui la géologie au Maroc est pareil que celle de la Nlle Ecosse au Canada ou des Cotes Brésilienne

marokino78000 a écrit:

Hier lors du reportage de grand angle , un des responsables a dit que il faut au moins 7 ans pour a peine savoir si ils vont investir lourdement ou pas . Et tenez vous bien 10 a 15 ans pour juste commencer a exporter ! Il m'a casser le moral Lol
La plateforme en mer c'est juste impressionnant .

il faut 2 ou 3 année d'etudes sismique et puis forage et s'il y-a découvert d'hydrocarbure il faut testé le puit et installer une plateforme petroliere ça prend en moyenne 3-4 ans pr l'offshore. Le plus important c'est pas le temps c'est si nos bassins sedimentaire contiennent du petrole.

Oui , et un des responsables anglais a parler du fait que avant , le continent africain et américain ne faisait que un , et que comme au large de l'Amérique il y a du pétrole , il est fort probable que même au large de nos côtes il y en ai ...
On en avait parler ici même

PGM a écrit:

aujourd'hui sur l'emission grand angle de 2M, un reportage sur le forage de foum draa. Merci a ceux qui tombent dessous de le poster.

PGM

Edit : Les 28 premières minutes.

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A Dallas company could help diplomacy by finding oil in Western Sahara
Jim Landers
Published: 02 December 2013 09:14 PM


WASHINGTON — Former Secretary of State James Baker spent seven years trying to mediate a solution to the Western Sahara dispute involving Morocco, Algeria and the Polisario Liberation Front.

When he left his U.N. envoy post in 2004, he was asked if oil drilling in the Western Sahara would wreck any hope of a negotiated solution. To the contrary, he said. Showing the economic viability of drilling in the region “might even make it easier,” he said.

Fast-forward to 2014: Dallas-based Kosmos Energy plans to drill next year about 30 miles off the coast of Western Sahara under a Moroccan lease.

As my colleague James Osborne noted in his report on Saturday, Kosmos executives say they are transparent in their dealings with the developing world. They help the people living where they explore.

In this instance, Kosmos is trying to straddle an intractable 40-year political dispute. It says it has moved cautiously.

“From the very beginning of our involvement in the territory, we have spent both time and resources to develop a deep knowledge of the complex and nuanced situation in Western Sahara,” Kosmos senior vice president William Hayes wrote in an email.

Kosmos has engaged with Moroccan authorities and other key stakeholders, ensuring that everything it does is sensitive to the situation there, Hayes wrote.

The Western Sahara sits on the northwestern corner of Africa, facing the Atlantic Ocean south of Morocco. It’s about the size of Colorado, with a population of 538,800.

It was a destitute Spanish colony until 1976, when Spain left. Morocco annexed the northern two-thirds of the area. A guerrilla war followed, pitting Morocco against the Polisario Liberation Front, which was supported by Algeria.

Morocco prevailed. In 1991, the U.N. brokered a cease-fire.

The territory’s final status was supposed to be resolved with either a referendum of independence or Moroccan sovereignty. Morocco twice balked at allowing a referendum. Now it insists the issue has been decided: Western Sahara is Moroccan territory.

The Polisario Liberation Front, centered in refugee camps in Algeria, formed a government in exile in 1976 for the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic. It has issued offshore leases for oil exploration to two British firms, though neither has plans to drill until there’s a political solution.

In 2002, the United Nations issued a legal opinion. It said drilling in the area would violate international norms if it disregarded the interests and wishes of the people of the Western Sahara.

Kosmos understands.

“If there is a commercial discovery offshore Western Sahara, it would be developed in a manner that both reflects international best practice on resource management and is consistent with international law,” Hayes wrote.

Morocco has offered the people of the Western Sahara a large measure of autonomy. President Barack Obama endorsed that approach to a solution last week, during the visit from Morocco’s King Mohammed VI.

At the moment, however, no one is negotiating. Finding oil could change that.

“It is our view that responsible resource exploration and, if successful, development in Western Sahara can and should occur in parallel with the U.N.-led discussions on the region’s future,” Hayes wrote. “We do not believe our activities will prejudice those negotiations or the outcome of that process.”

http://www.dallasnews.com/business/columnists/jim-landers/20131202-a-dallas-company-could-help-diplomacy-by-finding-oil-in-western-sahara.ece

chapeau bas à ces messieurs de Kosmos : trop forts et trop malins pour moi ...

leurs conseillers méritent bien leur (gros) salaire ..!!

ils preparent le terrain parcequ´ils savent ce qu´il y´a sous cap boujdour block

oui le jackpot du siecle

Si les résultats s'avere positif, ils auront surtout de quoi frotter des mains..nous aussi.

Yakuza a écrit:

http://www.dallasnews.com/business/columnists/jim-landers/20131202-a-dallas-company-could-help-diplomacy-by-finding-oil-in-western-sahara.ece

Très intéressant, on comprend un peu l'invitation surprise d'Obama et la déclaration commune qui a parlé clairement du soutien des Yankees au plan marocain

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simplet a écrit:

Très intéressant, on comprend un peu l'invitation surprise d'Obama et la déclaration commune qui a parlé clairement du soutien des Yankees au plan marocain.

Non je ne crois pas, c'est trop tôt Simplet.
Kosmos n'a pas encore foré son premier puits d'exploration, donc ils sont loin d'être sûr que les réservoirs contiennent déjà des hydrocarbures, encore moins si l'extraction est viable économiquement.

dragon-style a écrit:

simplet a écrit:

Très intéressant, on comprend un peu l'invitation surprise d'Obama et la déclaration commune qui a parlé clairement du soutien des Yankees au plan marocain.

Non je ne crois pas, c'est trop tôt Simplet.
Kosmos n'a pas encore foré son premier puits d'exploration, donc ils sont loin d'être sûr que les réservoirs contiennent déjà des hydrocarbures, encore moins si l'extraction est viable économiquement.

C pas trop tôt, les grande nations appelle ça la planification. c pays ne font pas dans la réaction

Prévoir l'avenir avec des hypothèses pour prendre de l'avance sur les autres prétendants ou cas ou ces hypothèses s'avéreront juste

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simplet a écrit:

C pas trop tôt, les grande nations appelle ça la planification. c pays ne font pas dans la réaction

Prévoir l'avenir avec des hypothèses pour prendre de l'avance sur les autres prétendants ou cas ou ces hypothèses s'avéreront juste.

S'exprimer sur un dossier sensible comme celui du Sahara c'est prendre part, les USA ont pris la part du Maroc contre l'Algérie.
Toute grande nation qui se respecte ne soutiendra pas une partie contre une autre sans des fondements solides.
Actuellement les réserves hypothétiques de Kosmos n'ont rien de solide.

Si c'était le cas ils auraient fait la même chose avec Ghana et Chad.

dragon-style a écrit:

simplet a écrit:

C pas trop tôt, les grande nations appelle ça la planification. c pays ne font pas dans la réaction

Prévoir l'avenir avec des hypothèses pour prendre de l'avance sur les autres prétendants ou cas ou ces hypothèses s'avéreront juste.

S'exprimer sur un dossier sensible comme celui du Sahara c'est prendre part, les USA ont pris la part du Maroc contre l'Algérie.
Toute grande nation qui se respecte ne soutiendra pas une partie contre une autre sans des fondements solides.
Actuellement les réserves hypothétiques de Kosmos n'ont rien de solide.

Y a surement d'autres raisons mais comme des grands ils ont déjà pris l'initiative.

Roosevelt malade avant même la fin de la guerre il s'est déplacé pour rencontrer le roi Al Saoud.

Il c'est pas soucié des réactions de ses meilleurs alliés Anglais

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simplet a écrit:

Yakuza a écrit:

http://www.dallasnews.com/business/columnists/jim-landers/20131202-a-dallas-company-could-help-diplomacy-by-finding-oil-in-western-sahara.ece

Très intéressant, on comprend un peu l'invitation surprise d'Obama et la déclaration commune qui a parlé clairement du soutien des Yankees au plan marocain

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Kosmos energy biggest shareholders: http://investors.morningstar.com/ownership/shareholders-overview.html?t=KOS
I=>Warburg Pincus (Timothy Gheitner) + ils ont 'un marocain' dans l'amerique du sud ( http://www.boardroominsiders.com/executive-profiles/3517/Warburg-Pincus-LLC/Alain-J.-P.-Belda)

II=>The Blackstone Group( ils sont deja actif au maroc: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-07-02/hilton-inveravante-group-to-open-hotels-in-morocco-s-tangier )

 

Zazoe, merci de structurer tes posts. N'hesites pas a faire des phrases.

Pgm

zazoe a écrit:

simplet a écrit:

Yakuza a écrit:

http://www.dallasnews.com/business/columnists/jim-landers/20131202-a-dallas-company-could-help-diplomacy-by-finding-oil-in-western-sahara.ece

Très intéressant, on comprend un peu l'invitation surprise d'Obama et la déclaration commune qui a parlé clairement du soutien des Yankees au plan marocain

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Kosmos energy biggest shareholders: http://investors.morningstar.com/ownership/shareholders-overview.html?t=KOS
I=>Warburg Pincus (Timothy Gheitner) + ils ont 'un marocain' dans l'amerique du sud ( http://www.boardroominsiders.com/executive-profiles/3517/Warburg-Pincus-LLC/Alain-J.-P.-Belda)

II=>The Blackstone Group( ils sont deja actif au maroc: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-07-02/hilton-inveravante-group-to-open-hotels-in-morocco-s-tangier )

 

Blackstone est la mere de tous les buzz dans le domaine hotelier,ils sont proprietaire de Hilton aussi.C;est la NASA des entreprises hoteliere,j'ai eu l'honneur de faire des projets avec leur team,c'est le meilleur deal que Znagui peut faire,il y a beaucoup de know how a absorber.Accor tremblera for sure mais on s'en fout l'avenir du Maroc d'abords.

à suivre, un nouvel arrivant qui était très discret jusque là :

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First Sahara Energy Invited to Finalize Agreement for Oil and Gas License in Morocco

Vancouver, B.C., Canada – First Sahara Energy Inc. (CNSX:FSE) announced today that it has been invited to a meeting by ONHYM, Morocco’s Ministry of Energy & Mines, to finalize a contract for an oil and gas Reconnaissance License on an expansive property called the Beni Znassen Block. The meeting is scheduled to take within the next few weeks in Rabat, the capital of Morocco, and is expected to conclude with the signing of the contract and the issuance of the Reconnaissance License.

For the past five months, First Sahara has been engaged in an intensive evaluation of 14 available oil and gas properties in Morocco. This evaluation was narrowed down to one property - the Beni Znassen Block - located onshore in the northeast part of the country. The Beni Znassen Block was chosen because of the following attributes:

1.28 million acres with extensive 2-D seismic data.
Similar reservoir and source rocks to the Tselfat area in central Morocco, which has large proven oil and gas reserves.
The seismic data reveals several alluring structural anomalies with a similar profile to the numerous oil & gas fields in the Tselfat area.
At least one of the anomalies is extremely large and appears to be structurally closed.
There is a known oil seep at the periphery of the Beni Znassen basin.
Drilling depth to target horizons is less than 3000 metres.
No wells have yet been drilled on the property.

The property is close to the Maghreb Europe Gas Pipeline, which transports gas from the super giant Maghreb gas field in adjacent Algeria. The pipeline has ample excess capacity.

After a period of negotiation, First Sahara and ONHYM recently came to a general agreement on the terms of a robust work program, which will be carried out within one year of the issuance of the Reconnaissance License. Most of the work program will focus on the large structural anomaly and will consist of:

Reprocessing 600 kilometres of existing 2-D seismic data
Reprocessing 10,000 kilometres of aero mag and gravity
A rock evaluation of basin outcrops
A micro-seepage study across the identified structural anomaly
Attribute reprocessing of key seismic lines, including direct hydrocarbon identification
Hyper spectral/multi-spectral analysis from high resolution satellite imagery.

“Morocco is fast becoming a new frontier for oil and gas exploration and we are very enthused about the country’s potential to be a major petroleum producer,” said David Stadnyk, President and CEO of First Sahara Energy. “We are also grateful for and excited about the opportunity to be a part of this emerging story and we look forward to working with ONHYM to make our exploration efforts on the Beni Znassen basin a great success.”

For more information contact:

David Stadnyk
President and CEO
(604) 428-0511
info@firstsahara.com
www.firstsahara.com

FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS

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Forage de Sidi Mokhtar

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à confirmer cette information sur Sidi Mokhtar ?!

on l'oublie souvent , mais forer est une tâche dangereuse et très risquée .. forer un réservoir de gaz est équivalent à forer une cocotte-minute brulante avec une aiguille !!!

Catherine Ashton remet le pro-polisario député européen Willy Meyer à sa place :  

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by High Representative/Vice-President Ashton on behalf of the Commission
Written questions :E-010945/13 , E-010944/13

The EU is aware of the oil exploration activities mentioned by the Honourable Member of the EP.

According to United Nations, the Western Sahara is a disputed Non-Self‐ Governing Territory under de facto Moroccan administration. The exploration of mineral resources in areas offshore Western Sahara is not as such forbidden by the UN Charter (see document S/2002/161 of February 12, 2002).

la question était çà :

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As a result of the oil exploration that the Spanish company REPSOL is conducting in territorial waters of the Canary Islands, oil exploration has also begun in the adjacent territorial waters of the Kingdom of Morocco.

This exploration, authorised by the Moroccan Government, is occurring in the vicinity of the territorial waters of the Western Sahara. The Kingdom of Morocco’s long-standing habit of turning a deaf ear to the international community and the United Nations, and of illegally appropriating the territory and the maritime space of the Western Sahara, leads to the suspicion that it would exceed the bounds of its sovereignty if an oilfield were found in nearby waters.

This exploration, if it is deemed feasible and exploitation of the oilfields begins, would present a series of environmental risks to the maritime ecosystems of the Canary Islands. These very important ecosystems would be seriously threatened, since Moroccan environmental legislation and its implementation do not ensure the same levels of safety provided for in EU legislation.

In view of this information, is the Commission keeping abreast of the abovementioned exploration being conducted in this area?

Does the Commission have information about the location of this exploration by Morocco, and can it confirm that it will not extend illegally into the territorial waters of the Western Sahara?

Does the Commission have a basis to confirm that, if exploitation is begun, Morocco’s environmental legislation on oil will sufficiently protect the marine ecosystem, preventing the potential risks that such exploitation entails from threatening the Canary Islands as well?

Les députés pro polisario se mangent claques sur claques en ce moment( apres le rapport des DH completement retravaillé et l'accord de peche signé).

"La présence de British Petroleum témoigne de l'attractivité du Maroc"

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Exploitation pétrolière : "La présence de British Petroleum témoigne de l'attractivité du Maroc" (Amara)
 
L'intérêt manifesté au Maroc par British Petroleum, classée troisième société pétrolière au niveau mondial, témoigne de l'attractivité du Maroc auprès des investisseurs de renommée internationale, a affirmé le ministre de l'Energie, des mines, de l'eau et de l'environnement, Abdelkader Amara.

Exploitation petroliere Maroc
"Nous ne ménagerons aucun effort pour accompagner ce partenariat prometteur et lui assurer plein succès", a indiqué le ministre, lors d'un entretien avec les représentants des deux groupes d'exploration pétrolière, British Petroleum (BP) et l'américain KosmosEnergy (Kosmos), en présence de la directrice générale de l'Office national des hydrocarbures et des mines (ONHYM), Amina Benkhadra.

M. Amara a précisé que son ministère "reste toujours disposé à encourager et promouvoir l'exploration pétrolière au Maroc".

Lors de cette entrevue, BP a présenté au ministre le programme de travail établi avec Kosmos dans le cadre du partenariat avec l'ONHYM et qui porte actuellement sur 3 permis à Essaouira, FoumAssaka et Tarhazoute.

Ces blocs se situent à une profondeur d'eau de 3 000 mètres et couvrent ensemble une superficie d'environ 25 000 km2.

Le bloc Tarhazoute, pour lequel un accord pétrolier a été signé entre ONHYM et KOSMOS le 10 octobre dernier, permettra une exploration intégrée sur une partie importante du bassin d'Agadir, l'un des derniers bassins inexplorés au large des côtes atlantiques, dans la mesure où il se situe à proximité des blocs Essaouira et FoumAssaka.

Ce partenariat prévoit de commencer les opérations de forage sur le bassin d'Agadir au cours du premier semestre de 2014.

MAP

http://www.lavieeco.com/news/actualites/exploitation-petroliere-la-presence-de-british-petroleum-temoigne-de-l-attractivite-du-maroc-amara--27616.html