Sound Energy announces first commissioning gas at Tendrara gas development

Sound Energy has announced the commencement of archetypal commissioning activities astatine the TE-5 Horst improvement task successful the Tendrara accumulation concession successful eastbound Morocco.

The Tendrara accumulation concession is an onshore state tract jointly owned by Mana Energy (55%), which is besides the operator, alongside Sound Energy (20%) and ONHYM (25%).

The archetypal state has entered the state gathering strategy (GGS) successful mentation for semipermanent proviso into the micro-liquefied earthy state (LNG) plant.

The supervisory power and information acquisition (SCADA) computer, the past constituent required for the state gathering system, arrived connected 28 November.

After it was installed, state flowed from the TE-6 accumulation good into the GGS.

Italian lipid and state services institution Italfluid Geoenergy (ITF) is liable for designing, constructing, operating and maintaining the micro-LNG plant.

The Tendrara installation volition present LNG to Afriquia Gaz.

A binding state income statement and related backing are successful spot with Afriquia Gaz.

Under a ten-year commitment, Afriquia Gaz volition acquisition 100 cardinal mean cubic metres of state annually, starting from the archetypal gas, astatine a terms of $6–8.346 per cardinal British thermal units.

The terms volition beryllium determined based connected an indexed look that applies a premix of the European TTF (Title Transfer Facility) and US Henry Hub benchmarks.

The operation of the micro-LNG works is nether way, and the improvement volition leverage the existing TE-6 and TE-7 wells, on with 1 caller good to proviso the earthy state volumes into the works for Phase 1 improvement and to support the contracted accumulation plateau implicit the 10 years.

ITF projects that gross from LNG income volition statesman precocious the archetypal 4th (Q1) oregon Q2 of 2026.

Sound Energy CEO Majid Shafiq said: “We are pleased that we person reached different milestone to bring state to Moroccan concern consumers and congratulate the operator, Mana Energy.

“I look guardant to afloat commissioning of the micro-LNG installation and transportation of income state successful the coming months.

“We are entering an breathtaking play astatine Sound Energy arsenic we go a revenue-generating company, whilst progressing to the FID [final concern decision] for the 2nd signifier of improvement of the full field, to proviso Moroccan powerfulness markets.”

Last year, successful December, Sound Energy confirmed the completion of the transaction for the partial divestment of its Moroccan assets done the merchantability of its full issued stock superior successful Sound Energy Morocco East to Managem, for a full worth of up to $45.2m (£35.65m).

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