MOROCCO

 
Northern Morocco Joins Farm-Out Fever
 
The recent flurry of interest in the Moroccan upstream continues with UK independent Gulfsands and Portugal’s Galp Energia the latest to enter the country’s upstream. Gulfsands plans up to nine exploration wells for 2013, with more drilling to follow.
 
UK-listed Gulfsands, whose key current interests are in war-torn Syria, has been keen to broaden its portfolio. On 19 December Gulfsands paid privately-owned...