LONDON — Chariot has completed the FEED of critical components of its Anchois gas development offshore Morocco.
The Anchois gas field is in the Lixus offshore license area, which Chariot operates in partnership with state energy company ONHYM.
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The Lixus offshore license covers an area of about 1,794 sq km, with water depths ranging from the coastline to 850 m.
FEED work started last June, and this and the subsurface development studies have confirmed the basis for the initial development, comprising:
Three subsea production wells, including Anchois-2 drilled by Chariot in 2022, with multi-zone completions to ensure gas recovery across multiple stacked sands;
SURF and SPS facilities delivering produced hydrocarbons from the wells to the onshore facilities via a subsea flowline, with control of the wells via an umbilical, and future expansion via additional well tiebacks;
Onshore central processing facility to process the hydrocarbons and to deliver treated gas and condensate to market, with an initial capacity of 105 MMcf/d; and
Onshore pipeline to deliver the gas to the anchor gas offtakers via the Maghreb Europe Gas Pipeline (a tie-in agreement has already been signed).
Chariot has now invited EPC proposals. Other ongoing work, in the run-up to development sanction, includes preparation of the Environmental, Social Impact Assessment (ESIA), for which onshore and offshore environmental baseline surveys have been acquired.
Currently, the Lixus partners are finalizing a field development plan to enable the award of the production concession; development drilling planning is also underway concerning an additional 754 Bcf of prospective gas resources, with the identified targets said to have an independently assessed geological chance of success ranging from 49 % to 61%.
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The Rissana offshore license, covering an area of 8,489 sq km, surrounds the offshore boundaries of Chariot’s existing Lixus offshore license, as well as covering the most prospective northern areas of the previously held Mohammedia offshore and Kenitra offshore licenses.
