The sector Atlas: the data that de-risks the Chadian barrel.
Chad has produced oil since 2003, yet its sector data remains scattered, stale, often contradictory. EnerConseils chose to start there: a public atlas — basins, reserves, cadastre, legal framework — because nobody invests in what they cannot read.
Ask for the gravity of Chadian crude, the number of open blocks or the Lake basin’s reserves: depending on the source, you will get three answers. That dispersion is not a detail — it is a cost of capital. Every documentary uncertainty is paid for in risk premium, redone studies, months of due diligence. For a sector that wants to attract operators to its mature fields and marginal blocks, unreadable data is the first deposit to mine.
Hence the first deliverable of the EnerConseils pole: the Atlas of Chad’s petroleum sector — freely accessible.
What the Atlas contains
Eleven chapters, four tables, a map of the 2025 cadastre. The country reads in one page: production since 2003, ~144 kb/d on average in 2024, a national objective of 250 kb/d by 2030; seven sedimentary basins, from producing Doba (Komé, Miandoum, Bolobo — over 900 Mb proven) to pioneering Erdis, via Sédigui, discovered and still untapped; about 1.5 Gboe of 1P reserves sector-wide; and the cadastre: 38 open blocks, 11 awarded, 8 changing hands, 32 fields under active concession. Every figure carries its source and its date.
A discipline of evidence, not opinion
Method matters more than volume: dated public sources, exposed assumptions, question before deliverable. When two references diverge — like the famous "28-32°" gravities of Chadian crude, whose origin our investigation untangled — the Atlas shows the divergence instead of smoothing it. A figure without a source has no place in it.
That discipline serves everyone: the investor structuring a case, the operator screening a block, the student writing a thesis, the administration negotiating. And it serves EnerTchad: it is the raw material of our project de-risking services.
An undocumented block is worth its risk premium. A documented block is worth its geology.
The data stays in Chad
Chad’s subsurface has been studied for decades — but most of that knowledge lives in foreign operators’ archives or on servers outside the country. The Atlas walks the other way: building, in Chad, a sovereign sectoral memory — open to all, enriched as campaigns publish. The same rule will govern our future proprietary data: hosted and governed in-country, within TchadiTech’s L1-L4 architecture.
A living atlas
The current edition (updated June 2026) stays free; structured access — extractions, tables, support — belongs to EnerConseils’ services. And as with everything we publish: EnerTchad is a company in formation; the Atlas describes the sector as publicly documented, and our 2030 targets remain dated objectives, not assets.
But the principle is set: in Chad, the first barrel to refine is the data.