Tags: Morocco, floating terminal, liquefied gas,
Abdel Ghafour Al-Hajjawi, a Moroccan government official, announced that his country intends to launch a tender for the construction of a floating liquefied natural gas terminal in the western port of Nador of the Mediterranean, northeast of Morocco.
Al-Hajwi said, in a presentation, that the Ministry of Energy Transition and Sustainable Development hopes to achieve financial closure of the project during the next year, the construction, operation and commercial operation phase starting in 2026.
Nador, a deep-water port, is under construction in the western Mediterranean and is expected to have a capacity of 3.5 million containers.
Last March, 4 ministries and 4 institutions in Morocco signed a memorandum of understanding with the aim of completing the country’s gas infrastructure development program.
The gas infrastructure development program includes the development of a liquefied natural gas import terminal in the port of Nador, support for gas pipelines connecting local gas producing basins to consumers and the establishment of a new gas pipeline connecting the terminal for the Maghreb-European gas pipeline.
Morocco is seeking to secure its energy needs at an accelerated pace, given its heavy dependence on imports to cover 96% of its energy consumption.
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