Minister Leila Benali presents to the conference of West Africa sedimentary basin the Moroccan ambitious strategy in the field of energy

Minister of Energy Transition and Sustainable Development Mrs. Leila Benali has stated that “Morocco’s commitment to energy transition is a pre-emptive political choice” launched by His Majesty King Mohammed VI since a decade, through establishing an ambitious energy strategy, based in principle on three pillars, sources of renewable energy, energy efficiency and regional complementarity, accompanied by creativity, adaptation and strong local component.

Mrs. Benali has outlined in a videoconference at the second session of the conference of sedimentary basin of West Africa organized at the center Abdu Diouf, in the area of Dakar, that natural gas which is a basic transitional energy is at the heart of the Moroccan Kingdom’s energy strategy, clarifying that gas is necessary to accelerate renewable energies, it also enhances the industrial competitiveness capacity, stating that “natural gas is at the core of our regional cooperation, especially in what concerns the use of common infrastructures with our neighbouring countries”.

Minister Benali said that the flow of Maghreb Arab- European pipeline last June was an important historical event in many aspects; since it is the first time Morocco has entered world market of liquefied natural gas and the first time gas was subsided to Africa through European infrastructure.

In this context, Minister Benali has stressed that Morocco is working hard to improve a modern and sustainable flexible infrastructure worth the 21st century through establishing one or more imports stations and another network of pipelines to link major areas of consumptions, making sure that this infrastructure is compatible with hydrogen which constitutes the big coming revolution in the energy sector beside carbon.