On 4 January 2018, SDX Energy announced that it had abandoned the ELQ-1 wildcat in the Gharb Centre permit after encountering non-commercial gas. The well has encountered 22.6 net m of reservoir interval and 2 m of marginal net gas pay in the Hoot formation, which is estimated to be insufficient to proceed to the completion of the well.  The ELQ-1 well was spudded on 21 December 2017 and drilled to a TD of 1,484 m. The well is the fourth well in the Companyâs nine well campaign and the first of two commitment wells planned on the Gharb Centre permit. The Gharb Centre permit was acquired in June 2017 after the acquisition of Circle Oilâs assets in Egypt and Morocco in January 2017. 
Morocco (Rharb-Prerif B.) ? op. by SDX ENERGY (75.0%, ONHYM 25.0%) in Gharb Centre block