The soaring oil prices require Morocco to come up with a new strategy to face up to this energy problematic that has taken the Moroccan government by a surprise. This is exactly what Amina Benkhadra's department has done.
The national office for hydrocarbons and mines (ONHYM) signed Monday in Rabat an oil drilling agreement with Canadian Petro-Canada and German RWE Dea AG.
The painful question which has been incessantly repeated recently in Morocco is what to do to appease the disturbing effects of the increasingly strained international environment on our national economy.
Aware of the persistence of the risk that makes this environment weigh heavy on the most affected segments of the productive fabric, the public authorities have drawn up two plans concerning the energy and agricultural sectors.