Country Report
Morocco upstream summary
Report summary
Morocco has the lowest reserves and production in North Africa. Frontier offshore exploration has been largely unsuccessful, and low-risk onshore exploration has yielded only modest sized gas discoveries.Energean and Chariot are focusing on appraising the offshore Anchois gas discovery. Repsol made the discovery in 2009 but subsequently relinquished the acreage. In 2022, Chariot proved 637 bcf of contingent resources and devised a development concept comprising a subsea tie-back to an ...
Table of contents
- Executive summary
- Key facts
- Location maps
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Geology
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Introduction
- Hercynian compressional phase
- Triassic-Lower Jurassic extensional phase
- Alpine compressional phase
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Pre-Rif/Rharb Basin
- Pre-Rif
- Rharb Basin
- Offshore Rharb Basin
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Doukkala Basin
- Offshore Doukkala Basin
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Essaouira Basin
- Essaouira-Agadir Basin (offshore)
- Beni Mellal Basin
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Atlas Basin
- Missour Basin
- Guercif Basin
- High Plateau
- Anti-Atlas
- Boudenib Basin
- Ouarzazate Basin
- Bechar Basin
- Aaiun-Tarfaya Basin
- Tindouf Basin
- Souss Basin
- Alboran Sea Basin
- Gulf of Cadiz Basin
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Introduction
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Exploration
- Licensing
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Territorial disputes
- Western Sahara
- Spain
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Drilling
- Drilling activity
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Reserves and resources
- Commercial Reserves
- Contingent Resources
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Production
- Liquids
- Gas
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Infrastructure
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Oil infrastructure
- Pipelines and terminals
- Refining
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Gas infrastructure
- Domestic supply network
- Off-take gas from GME
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Oil infrastructure
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Costs
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Capital costs
- Capital expenditure by location
- Onshore expenditure
- Offshore expenditure
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Capital costs
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Policy and regulation
- Key legislation
- Regulatory body
- State oil company
- State participation
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Licensing
- Reconnaissance licence
- Exploration permit
- Exploitation concession
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Fiscal terms
- Overview
- Current fiscal terms
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Concessions
- State equity participation
- Bonuses, rentals and fees
- Indirect Taxes
- Royalty and other production taxes
- Domestic market obligation
- Product pricing
- Corporate income tax
- Investment uplift/credit
- Loss carry forward
- Additional taxes
- Abandonment
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Historical background
- 1958-1992 Hydrocarbon Laws
- 1992 Hydrocarbon Law
Tables and charts
This report includes 16 images and tables including:
- Key facts: Table 1
- Country map
- Blocks awarded by region
- Moroccan licensed acreage map
- Liquids and gas reserves
- Technical Gas Reserves by Basin
- Commercial Reserves by Analysis
- Liquids production
- Gas Production
- Geology of Morocco
- Rharb and Pre-Rif generalised stratigraphy
- Essaouira Basin generalised stratigraphy
- Exploration drilling (does not include appraisals)
- Infrastructure: Table 1
- Costs: Table 1
- Costs: Table 2
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