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Morocco announced the reactivation of two large power plants thanks to liquefied natural gas (LNG) transported from Spain via the Maghreb Europe Pipeline (GME). Significantly, this development has come after Algiers’ decision to stop supplying the kingdom with gas
Morocco announced the reactivation of two large power plants thanks to liquefied natural gas (LNG) transported from Spain via the Maghreb Europe Pipeline (GME). Significantly, this development has come after Algiers’ decision to stop supplying the kingdom with gas.
The contracts for the supply of LNG (liquefied natural gas) were benchmarked on the international market price and by using the gas infrastructures of Spanish operators and the Maghreb-Europe Gas Pipeline. This LNG will be used to restart the gas stations of Tahaddart and Aîn Béni Mathar, in the north of Morocco, which was previously supplied by Algerian gas.
The supply of the two power stations – which provide between 10% and 17% of the national electricity production is ensured via the Moroccan-Spanish gas interconnection operating in reverse flow mode. The delivery of gas to Morocco began on 28 June. Algeria had threatened in April to break its gas supply contract with Spain if Madrid was to send Algerian gas to a third destination, an implicit reference to Morocco.
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At the end of October, Algiers decided not to renew the contract amid escalating tensions between the two neighbours over the Western Sahara issue. At the end of November, a British company Sound Energy and ONEE signed an agreement to supply natural gas from the Tendrara concession (east). Sound Energy undertakes to produce and deliver to the country up to 350 million cubic metres of liquefied natural gas per
