Environ 900 000 km² à explorer pour le pétrole et le gaz au Maroc

[haddou]

(Agence Ecofin) - Dans une récente interview au quotidien marocain Libération, la directrice générale de l'Office national des hydrocarbures et des mines (ONHYM), Mme Amina Benkhadra, a estimé à près de 900 000 km² la surface totale des bassins à explorer dans le royaume chérifien qui s’empresse d’entrer dans le cercle des pays pétro-gaziers.

A l’en croire, le Maroc possède une vingtaine de bassins sédimentaires en onshore et une variété de segments de bassins en offshore atlantique et méditerranéen, avec 300 puits d'exploration, soit une densité de forage d'à peine 0,04 puits par 100 km². « Comparée à une densité mondiale moyenne de 8 à 10 puits par 100 km2, on voit que notre pays reste sous exploré », a expliqué Mme Benkhadra.

Au Maroc, l'ONHYM, qui a en règle générale 25% dans les opérations d'exploration et de production, continue à déployer ses efforts pour « encourager et intensifier l'exploration pétrolière des bassins sédimentaires marocains, par ses propres moyens ou en partenariat », a-t-elle relevé.

A ce jour, 31 sociétés pétrolières internationales, dont des majors, des super indépendants et des indépendants, opèrent en offshore et en onshore au Maroc

[upup]

Haddou,

En attendant les resultas de l exploration offshore, l exploitation des schistes bitumineux ( réserves 56 milliards de bl) commencera avec 3 installation produisant quleques dizaines de milliers de bls / jour et des centaines de Mw d électricité au moyen atlas . Chevron est entrée dans la partie.

Une douzaine de milliards de $ d investissement suffisent pour que le Maroc devienne exportateur de pétrole produit à partir des schistes bitumineux.

[kabyle80]

Faudrait peut -être arrêter de prendre ses rêves pour la réalité ...oeilfermé

[haddou]

upup


l'année 2014 sera riche en annonces , mais je crains la contamination de voir les gens compter sur les hydrocarbures , alors qu'on est bien comme ça , malgré les problèmes

[upup]

Kabyle,

Faut que tu suis l actualité économique.

[upup]

Haddou,

1 - le Maroc doit sortir de sa dépendance énergétique actuelle.

2 - il doit avoir les moyens pour investir pour le futur, dans l éducation la santé et dans les infrastructure en plus dans le savoir.

3 - Nous avons un beau pays, il nous faut plus d argent pour en profiter

[kabyle80]

@upup

Kabyle,

Faut que tu suis l actualité économique.
upup est connecté maintenant



T'on actualité économique et propagande marocaine de marche pas

la réalité dit que le Maroc vie dans un rêve





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[haddou]

la réalité dit que le Maroc vie dans un rêve

s'il n'y a pas de l'espoir , c'est la grisaille , c'est l'effet psychologique qui donne le moral dans les affaires et dans la vie , mais ça c'est en général avec ou sans hydraucarbure

[upup]

Kabyle,

Tu brilles par ton inculture, schistes bitumineux et gaz de schistes ou pétrole de schistes sont des produits différents.. Le mot schiste ne veut pas dire la même chose.
Le,Maroc disoose de l une de grandes réserves en schsites bitumineux, 56 milliards de barils de pétrole rien que sur deux sites. Alors que Le pays dispose de plus de 10 sites sans parler des couches sous les phosphates.
Cultive toi l ami.

[kabyle80]

@upup


Le Maroc dispose rien du tout elle dispose du rêve , rien d autre

les cartes le prouve , vous ne faites pas partie de pays producteur de l Or noir ou future pays producteur


vous êtes pauvres faut l accepté ..:22:

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Kabyle,

Tu t enfonces de plus en plus, je vais t aider, c est gratuit.

Les anglais, pour faire la différence utilisent deux mots diffrents "Oil shale" pour l'un et "Shale oil" pour l autre. Moi je parle de l Oil shale, toi tu me réponds sur le Shale oil....



56 milliards de barils de petrole , sans parler du gaz qui va avec, seulement sur Timahdit et Tarfaya ...

[kabyle80]

upup



Tu t enfonces de plus en plus, je vais t aider, c est gratuit.

Les anglais, pour faire la différence utilise deux "Oil shale" pour l'un et "SHale oil" pour l autre.


Pas besoin de faire semblant ya aucune différence a faire , vous êtes pauvres ça fait 50 ans que vous cherchez des hydrocarbures desesperement vôtres propagande ne fonctionne pas ya rien qui va vous sauvez y'auras pas de miracl




More Shale Oil In Russia, Argentina And Algeria Than The US: IHS


An aerial view of a shale oil drilling rig SAI-310 in the Patagonian province of Neuquen October 14, 2011. The Patagonia landscape, which was transformed through the discovery of big deposits of hydrocarbons in the 1970s, could experience another energy revolution due to forecasts indicating that they could contain the third largest reservoir of unconventional natural gas in the world REUTERS/Enrique Marcarian
Argentina, Russia and Algeria may soon see an energy boom like the U.S.' as those countries' shale oilfields may hold larger reserves than current oil-producing states in the U.S., according to a report released by global information company IHS Tuesday.



Thanks in part to hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") and drilling horizontally, oil trapped in shale rock deep beneath the Earth’s surface that was once impossible to tap commercially can now be extracted profitably.

Fracking, a process in which millions of gallons of water and chemicals are blasted to extract natural gas or crude oil from fractured rocks and shale, has caused U.S. oil and gas production to skyrocket in the past several years. The technique has been heavily criticized for its alleged environmental impact, with critics contending fracking contaminates groundwater.

Fields in the Muerta of Argentina, the Bazhenov shale of Siberia and the Silurian shale of North Africa could produce more than the highly productive Bakken formation in North Dakota and the Eagle Ford formation in Texas.

However, tapping into reserves of other countries outside the U.S. would be more costly than current extraction in the U.S. because of infrastructure deficiencies, according to the IHS.

David Kashi


Voila tu peut aller faire le malin ailleurs heureusement que le ridicule ne tu pas

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Kabyle,

inculte + tetu = ignorant

"Oil shale" ce n est pas la meme chose que "Shale oil"

jette un coup d oeil sur la carte que j avais ajoutee en haut ....

[nacera90]

@Upup tu es sur que Oil shale" "Shale oil" sont deux chose différentes?

La carte que tu as postée montre le site de rafinerie du Oil shale" ce n est pas la meme chose que "Shale oil""!!!

D'après Wiki:

Shale oil; Huile de schiste; pétrole conventionnel

Gaz de schiste c'est du Gaz non conventionnel

[upup]

Nacera ,

Moi je parle de schistes bitumineux qu est autre chose que le gaz de schiste et different du petrole de schistes ..

schistes bitumineux = kerogene

wiki c est pas la bible .. celui qui a ecrit l article fait la meme erreur ...


Morocco Oil Shale Deposits, an Alternative Oil Source Following Oil Spill in US Golf

05/20/10

Oil Shale mine in Alberta, canada
Washington / Morocco Board News Service - The on shore oil spill at the US Golf Coast and the ensuing environmental disaster, the shortage of drilling sites and high Oil prices have pushed the oil companies to look at "unconventional" hydrocarbon deposits in places such as Morocco, Jordan as well as the US . Canada's current development of tar sands has triggered a rush by oil companies to set up similar operations in Russia, Congo and others. Canada is currently the only major center of production but investment is expanding by oil companies such as BP, Shell, Total and ENI.
However, environmental groups consider that Tar sands and oil shale to be much more damaging to the planet than normal oil operations because extraction is highly carbon- and water-intensive.
BP and Shell contest environmental claims that tar sands are up to five times as carbon-intensive to exploit as normal crude. They say that they can mitigate the impact by using carbon capture and storage techniques, but these technologies are unproven on a large scale.
There are ten oil shale deposits in Morocco, and the three most-explored, and therefore the most likely to begin commercial production in the near future, are near the city of Tangier, near the Mediterranean sea, Timahdit, to the east of the capital Rabat and Tarfaya, near Morocco’s southern Saharan provinces. Morocco’s total in place oil shale reserves are estimated at between 50 and 55 billion barrels. The Timahdit zone contains an estimated 16.1 billion barrels of oil in place. Tarfaya is around 22.7 billion barrels of oil. The thickness of the Timahdit shale is between 80 and 250 meters and Tarfaya between 22 and 28 meters. While Tarfaya is shallow enough to be entirely developed potentially with surface mining, Timahdit will require a combination of mining and in situ production. The Tangier deposit, at a thickness between a few centimeters and 8 meters, contains an estimated 2 billion barrels of oil.

Morocco is highly dependent on energy imports, hence the government’s interest in exploiting domestic deposits of oil shale. Omar Bekri, a former head of Research and Development at the Moroccan National Oil Company, estimates that with a production of 50,000 barrels per day from shale, more than 40% of Morocco’s energy consumption would be covered. Because of this, the National Office of Hydrocarbons and Mines (ONHYM) says that “the Moroccan authorities have decided to elaborate a new legal and attractive fiscal framework for the oil shale projects” to encourage large oil companies to invest. In 2008 ONHYM employed Brazilian state oil company Petrobras to evaluate the Timahdit deposit in the hope of confirming the studies done in the 1980s and to assess the feasibility of developing the deposit. Total has since joined this project by signing a cooperation agreement with Petrobras, stating: “Petrobras owns an oil shale extraction process [….] Total, meanwhile, has state-of-the-art oil upgrading technology and deep knowledge of the region”.
In July 2009, Irish oil company San Leon Energy announced it had signed a three-year agreement with ONHYM to use “In-Situ Vapor Extraction (IVE) technology” on the Tarfaya deposit. The first testing phase is due for completion by mid-to-late 2010. ONHYM has also signed an agreement regarding the Tarfaya field with a company called Xtract and a “confidentiality
agreement” on the Tangier field with a company called Enefit. Xtract Energy is a London-based multinational energy company, which owns 70% of Xtract Energy (Oil Shale) Morocco, with the other 30% stake being held by Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia. The agreement is for the “evaluation and possible development of an oil shale deposit near Tarfaya”. However, “in light of market turmoil and falling oil prices, no significant work [has been] done by the joint venture [….] Since July 2009, investment conditions have started to improve and it is hoped that work can begin during the current financial year”. Enefit is the Latvian subsidiary of Estonian company Eesti Energia. There is little information about their agreement with ONHYM, but the CEO of Eesti states that “confident of our success in Jordan, we are ready to export our unique oil shale production know-how to other countries interested in oil shale utilizations such as Morocco”.

The Tarfaya deposit spans the line between the province of Tarfaya and Morocco Saharan Provinces, a sparsely populated region that is the centre of an ongoing political dispute.

From an environmental perspective, the Timahdit deposit is close to the Ifrane and Haut Atlas Oriental national parks. The former contains the largest Atlas cedar forest and a population of Barbary apes. The latter is heavily used for pastoralism and agriculture, with an estimated 18,000 people using the park’s resources as of 1993. The Moroccan government says to have undertaken environmental studies on both the Timahdit and Tarfaya projects, but the environmental impacts need to be monitored closely.