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  • Morocco to Invest 800 Million Dirhams in Oil and Gas Exploration by 2020
    12 November 2019, by Ginette

    The minister stated that "by the end of 2019, investment in hydrocarbon exploration will cost around 800 million dirhams."
    Rabbah recalled that Morocco has granted 8 research licenses, including 2 offshore and 1 concession for the exploitation of natural gas. He also stressed that "the volume of investments in oil and gas exploration in Morocco amounted to 1.7 billion dirhams."
    In addition, the National Office of Electricity and Drinking Water (ONEE) has signed a memorandum of (…)

  • Severe Drought to Leave 54 Moroccan Cities Without Water This Summer
    3 March 2022, by Armel

    54 Moroccan cities and villages will be affected by a terrible drought next summer, which will result in a lack of drinking water, according to forecasts from the National Office of Electricity and Drinking Water (ONEE).
    Speaking before the House of Representatives, the CEO of ONEE indicated that more than fifty cities will have difficulties in water supply. For example, the official cited the cities of Marrakech and Oujda, where water supply is under delegated management.
    The city of (…)

  • Siemens Gamesa Secures $20.4 Million Wind Farm Contract in Morocco
    24 September 2022, by Sylvanus

    The German-Spanish company Siemens Gamesa has won the tender launched by the National Office of Electricity and Drinking Water (ONEE).
    20.4 million dirhams (with a foreign exchange component of 3.4 million dollars). This was the lowest financial bid that allowed Siemens Gamesa to win the tender launched last June by the National Office of Electricity and Drinking Water (ONEE) against the Chinese consortium composed of the CRRC Dalian, CACS and Zhongtian Huineng groups of Tianjin, which (…)

  • Morocco Nears Natural Gas Exporter Status as Pipeline Project Advances
    5 March 2020, by Kamal

    According to Moroccan experts, the kingdom is "a step away from joining the club of natural gas exporters", after the British group Sound Energy received the green light from the Moroccan government to assess the environmental impact of the new 120 km pipeline, which is to connect Morocco to Europe.
    Negotiations between the two parties, as to the long-term operation of the 50-meter diameter pipeline, should continue until the end of March, reports Akhbarona.
    The preliminary meetings (…)

  • Morocco to Build 300 MW Wind Farm in Boujdour, Advancing Renewable Energy Goals
    21 November 2019, by Ginette

    A wind farm with a capacity of 300 MW will soon be built in Boujdour. The signing of the contracts for the implementation of this project took place between the National Office of Electricity and Drinking Water (ONEE), the Moroccan Agency for Sustainable Energy (MASEN) and a group of companies (Integrated Wind Project 850 MW).
    Located about 7 km northeast of the city of Boujdour, this park will mobilize an investment of around 4 billion dirhams. The second park of the Integrated Wind (…)

  • British Firm Sound Energy to Supply Natural Gas to Morocco’s ONEE
    3 November 2019, by Ginette

    The British firm, Sound Energy PLC, announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding for the sale to the National Office of Electricity and Drinking Water (ONEE) of natural gas from the Tendrara concession in the Oriental region. However, the signing of a detailed agreement is still under negotiation, according to a press release published on the company’s website.
    Sound energy hopes to reach the signing of a final contract by the end of 2019.
    But the memorandum of understanding (…)

  • Morocco Expands Water Supply with New Seawater Desalination Plants
    3 March 2021, by Prince

    The National Office of Electricity and Drinking Water (ONEE) announced the upcoming commissioning of two new seawater desalination plants, after that of Chtouka Aït Baha, recently mentioned by the Minister of Agriculture.
    A new seawater desalination plant will be operational in Laâyoune as early as the second half of 2021. According to the Director General of the National Office of Electricity and Drinking Water (ONEE), Abderrahim El Hafidi, it will help meet the drinking water needs of (…)

  • Shell to Supply Morocco with LNG via Maghreb-Europe Pipeline in Energy Security Boost
    15 July 2023, by Said

    A contract providing for the supply of 0.5 billion cubic meters of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) per year has just been signed between Shell International Trading Middle East Limited FZE and the National Office of Electricity and Drinking Water (ONEE).
    Deliveries will begin via Spanish ports and arrive in Morocco through the Maghreb-Europe Gas Pipeline, before the LNG is distributed via future Moroccan methane terminals.
    Leïla Benali, Minister of Energy Transition and Sustainable (…)

  • Morocco Secures €50 Million Loan for Northern Drinking Water Project
    20 July 2019, by Bladi.net

    The French Development Agency (AFD) has granted a loan of 50 million euros to the National Office of Electricity and Water (ONEE). This second loan aims to finance a drinking water network project in the northern provinces of Morocco.
    The French Development Agency is supporting the Moroccan government in its efforts to improve and secure access to quality drinking water for its citizens, particularly the populations of the provinces of Al Hoceima, Driouch, Nador and Taounate. To this end, (…)

  • Morocco Unveils $5.6 Billion Plan to Boost Water and Renewable Energy Infrastructure
    23 July 2019, by Sylvanus

    51.6 billion dirhams. This is the investment that ONEE intends to make over four years to boost the various sectors that make up the Office. The projects focus on "the diesel thermal power plant in Dakhla (22 MW), the Abdelmoumen pumped storage power plant (350 MW), a capacity of 220 MW in small hydroelectric plants to be carried out as part of Law 13-09 throughout the period 2020-2023, a wind capacity of 1,656 MW, and a solar capacity of 2,015 MW," according to an ONEE press release (…)