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Morocco has planned the construction of three regasification plants, one of them in Nador and the other two on the Atlantic side of the country, one of them in the vicinity of Western Sahara, a region considered by the Moroccan state as part of its southern provinces.
Thus, Morocco's Ministry of Energy Transition and Sustainable Development plans to erect three regasification platforms. One of them near the Mediterranean coast, in the vicinity of Nador, and the other two near the Atlantic Ocean.
The first regasification stations will become operational in 2027 after a strategic memorandum of understanding between representatives of the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Economy and Finance, the Ministry of Equipment and Water and the Ministry of Energy Transition and Sustainable Development.
A regasification plant is an industrial facility that exists between the extraction of liquefied natural gas and the natural gas distribution network. It is where the process that converts liquefied natural gas into natural gas takes place.
In the regasification process, the liquefied natural gas is transported to the vaporisation systems, where the temperature of the liquefied gas is raised using seawater, thus converting the liquid into gas.
Under Moroccan plans, the port of Nador West Med will be equipped with a gas pipeline, connected to the Maghreb-Europe Gas Pipeline (GME), and will be used mainly to feed ONEE's combined cycle gas-fired power stations, which combine combustion and steam turbines, including those of Aïn Béni Mathar and Tahaddart, to produce electricity.
This project will be followed in the short term by another regasification platform, built along the Atlantic coast, near the Jorf Lasfar industrial estate (17 km south of El Jadida), or in Mohammedia, as reported by La Razon.
