Agadir: Getting Started in oil exploration

Granting the National Bureau of Hedrocarborat and minerals licenses new this year to U.S. companies and British to initiate drilling operations and drilling for oil and natural gas coasts Moroccan Atlantic Ocean from Essaouira to Boujdour, after completed those companies survey and study the places to be covered by these operations successively starting from the last week of September next . , and so had the British company « Kern » Energy six licenses for exploration mouth Draa 1, 2 and 3 and the area Jobe Martin 1, 2 and 3, while awarded the company « Cosmos » American Energy four licenses for exploration coasts of Essaouira, Taghazout mouth Asaka and the head of Boujdour , while enjoyed company Kennel British Energy three licenses to begin drilling and exploration coasts Mir turnips and Sidi Moussa and Jobe Martin , in addition to the company « Bx » American Energy which is also received licenses for exploration and drilling certain areas .And will proceed to companies in the drilling and exploration successively by the agreements concluded between them and the National Bureau of hydrocarbon under the Ministry of Energy and Minerals in Morocco on the grounds that these companies will occupy excavator and one of the wells costing the daily value of one million and 500 thousand dollars, on the basis that stretch tubing around the wells to a depth of more than six kilometers under the sea .In this context, port received Agadir , starting on Thursday, 22 August current , Steamboat British subsidiary of the company « Kern » loaded with pipes drilling and other equipment awaiting the arrival of other ships will be emptied of their contents berth to port when shipped via ships to place drilling water- national between Agadir Tan , on the basis that initiate the listed company in the process of drilling the beginning of the last week of the month of September .According to informed sources, the foreign companies would cost all expenses exploration prohibitive on the basis that it will take a share of 75 per cent of the proceeds of oil and natural gas if the discovery of these fuels water- national while will gain the Moroccan state share of 25 per cent of those proceeds as stipulated in the agreements between the parties.As for aid , has placed the Moroccan state port of Agadir disposal of these companies, so that allocated the sidewalk triangle fishing port of Agadir to empty and charging equipment and piping in spite of the fact that the National Agency for ports did not create well this sidewalk, so that is still showing a range of drilling , which will impede undoubtedly these companies work during unloading and shipping .It also placed the Moroccan state Tan Tan Airport for other companies to transport officials , engineers and technicians for the same companies to rig with sea view across plane هيلوكوبتر the link between the rig and the airport.It is worth mentioning that already several foreign companies that carried out exploration and the search for oil and natural gas water- national on the Atlantic Ocean , while the company « shawl » and the company « Vanco » 2004 exploration between the coast of Essaouira , Agadir , has also process the same company « Petronas » 2008 Malaysian coasts of Rabat, and the company« Repsol » 2010 Spanish coasts of Larache and Tangier these companies did not reach any result