La firme p\u00e9troli\u00e8re britannique Upland Resources a annonc\u00e9, le 21 juillet, qu\u2019elle a c\u00e9d\u00e9 \u00e0 la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 p\u00e9troli\u00e8re am\u00e9ricaine Pennpetro Energy, une partie de ses droits d\u2019exploration sur le permis Saouaf en Tunisie, un p\u00e9rim\u00e8tre gazier de 4\u2009004 km\u00b2, situ\u00e9 dans le nord du pays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dans le cadre du deal, annonc\u00e9 en mars 2022, Pennpetro s\u2019offre 80 % des droits d\u2019exploration d\u00e9tenus par Upland sur le bloc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
L\u2019accord pr\u00e9voit \u00e9galement l\u2019acquisition par Pennpetro du statut d\u2019op\u00e9rateur de la licence pour laquelle les deux firmes pr\u00e9voient d\u2019engager une proc\u00e9dure pour en obtenir la rallonge pour une ann\u00e9e.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
L\u2019obtention de la prorogation de la licence, qui expire en d\u00e9cembre prochain, vise \u00e0 permettre aux parties prenantes, de r\u00e9aliser des travaux prospectifs sur le bloc jug\u00e9 h\u00e9berger environ 1 trillion de pieds cubes de gaz naturel. Des op\u00e9rations qui couvrent essentiellement l\u2019acquisition de 300 km de nouvelles donn\u00e9es sismiques 2D ainsi que le retraitement de certaines donn\u00e9es sismiques 2D d\u00e9j\u00e0 disponibles sur le bloc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Par ailleurs, Pennpetro paiera \u00e0 Upland un montant de 372\u2009000 $. Des fonds pr\u00e9vus pour couvrir 80 % des co\u00fbts irr\u00e9cup\u00e9rables pr\u00e9c\u00e9demment engag\u00e9s par la compagnie britannique sur le projet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bolhassan Di, PDG d’Upland a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 que \u00ab Les besoins \u00e9nerg\u00e9tiques de l’Europe n’ont jamais \u00e9t\u00e9 aussi vitaux qu’aujourd’hui et la poursuite du d\u00e9veloppement de cet actif a le potentiel de fournir des retours exceptionnels aux investisseurs en cas de succ\u00e8s \u00bb.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n L\u2019accord est soumis \u00e0 l’approbation de la compagnie p\u00e9troli\u00e8re publique de la Tunisie (ETAP) qui \u00e9tudie des options pour rehausser la production p\u00e9troli\u00e8re nationale, l\u2019une des plus faibles d\u2019Afrique. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" La firme p\u00e9troli\u00e8re britannique Upland Resources a annonc\u00e9, le 21 juillet, qu\u2019elle a c\u00e9d\u00e9 \u00e0 la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 p\u00e9troli\u00e8re am\u00e9ricaine Pennpetro Energy, une partie de ses droits d\u2019exploration sur le permis Saouaf en Tunisie, un p\u00e9rim\u00e8tre gazier de 4\u2009004 km\u00b2, situ\u00e9 dans le nord du pays. Dans le cadre du deal, annonc\u00e9 en mars 2022, Pennpetro […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":42101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"","format":"standard","video":"","gallery":"","source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"jnews_override_bookmark_settings":[],"jnews_review":[],"enable_review":"","type":"","name":"","summary":"","brand":"","sku":"","good":[],"bad":[],"score_override":"","override_value":"","rating":[],"price":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,73],"tags":[1147,8767,8768,8766],"class_list":["post-42100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eco-business","category-eco","tag-cession","tag-pennpetro","tag-permis-gazier-saouaf","tag-upland-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42102,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42100\/revisions\/42102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}