Oil & Gas UK’s Sound Energy helps Morocco enter LNG market By Eva Levesque February 5, 2025, 7:01 AM Sound Energy One of the 22m high, 6,200 cubic metre LNG storage tanks being constructed by Sound Energy in Morocco Processing facility nears completion Target of 1m cubic metres a day Current supply almost all from Spain Led by the UK company Sound Energy, Morocco is due to enter the liquefied natural gas market by the end of this year, as it finalises the development of its first LNG processing facility. Sound Energy owns a 20 percent stake in the project. The Moroccan mining company Managem owns 55 percent, while the remaining 25 percent is held by Morocco’s state-owned National Office of Hydrocarbons and Mines. The gas will be extracted from the Tendrara field, in the east of the kingdom, with commercially viable processing due to begin in the second half of the year. Initial production of about 300,000 cubic metres per day is expected to rise to more than 1 million cubic metres per day, Graham Lyon, Sound Energy’s CEO, told Al Asharq, but did not say over what period of time. Mena’s LNG output ‘to rise by two thirds by 2030’ Four companies to invest in Adnoc’s new LNG plant Adnoc strikes LNG supply deal with Germany The LNG will be sold from the conversion unit at Tendrara to Africa Gas, a subsidiary of the Moroccan group Akwa, one of the largest companies operating in the country’s fuel distribution sector. Sound Energy has invested more than $160 million in the project so far, Lyon told the newspaper. The development is in two phases: the first involving construction of processing, liquefaction and storage facilities, the second building a processing facility and a 120km pipeline linked to the Magreb-Europe gas pipeline. Tendrara is Morocco’s largest onshore gas field, covering more than 133 square kilometres, with reserves estimated at more than 10 billion cubic metres. The development of the field is central to the country’s strategy for reducing reliance on gas imports. For its natural gas needs now, Morocco depends almost entirely on imports of around one billion cubic metres per day, mainly via a pipeline from Spain. Its domestic gas production is limited to less than 100 million cubic metres annually, mainly from small fields in the country’s west. The country adopted an aggressive energy transition strategy, which includes building more renewable energy capacity and increasing gas production.