SDX Makes Further Moroccan Gas Find

SDX Energy, the UK-based firm focused on north Africa, said January 23 it made another gas discovery at the ONZ-7 well on its Sebou field in Morocco, in which it has 75% interest.

Drilling which started January 15 and reached a total depth of 1,167 meters with 5m of net conventional natural gas pay in the Hoot formation. SDX said that the reservoir’s quality exceeded initial expectations, with 35.3% porosity. ONZ-7 will shortly be completed, tested and attached to existing infrastructure. 

It is the fourth of five wells drilled by SDX under its program to drill nine wells in the country, at the Sebou, Gharb Center and Lalla Mimouna licenses, located between Tangier and Kenitra in northern Morocco. Most were successful, but its ELQ-7 well was declared uncommercial earlier this month. In the long run, it plans to increase its reserves by more than 100% and boost by more than 50% its Moroccan gas sales.

“We are very excited to be able to announce another discovery, the fourth from five wells drilled to date in our nine well Moroccan campaign. For this well we used our own high resolution 3D seismic data, as we have for the other successful wells and as we will for the remainder of the campaign”, said Paul Welch, CEO SDX. Its rig is now moving on to drill the KSS-2 prospect.