Sédigui: the sleeping field that can feed and light the country.
Discovered in the Lake region and never developed, Sédigui’s gas is one of Chad’s most useful molecules: converted to electricity, it lights; converted to urea, it feeds. Two destinies for one field.
In the sector Atlas, one line stands out: Lake Chad basin, Sédigui field, discovered — undeveloped. Around 150 million barrels equivalent, and above all a gas resource of roughly 7 billion m³ (state data, 2017-2020), a few dozen kilometres from a capital short of electricity and a country that imports its fertiliser. A field sleeping instead of creating value: exactly the kind of problem EnerTchad exists for.
First destiny: the electron — the gas-power link
Chad’s electricity access rate is among the lowest in the world, especially in rural areas. Sédigui’s gas can answer that: converted to electricity (gas-to-power), it supplies the capital and the cities, while gas + battery pairs electrify our isolated sites — the building block of the gas-solar hybrid. The "Hybridisation & micro-grids" project targets 125 MW, with pay-as-you-go village micro-grids and 60 to 90% access targeted in served areas. Energy is the first domino: it feeds industry, health, education and mobility.
Second destiny: the molecule — from gas to fertiliser
The same gas is a chemical feedstock. The gas → ammonia → urea / NPK chain is, alongside LPG, one of the two mature routes in our Petrochemicals extension, within the Refining & Distribution: turning Sédigui into fertiliser made in Chad, for an agriculture that today depends on expensive inputs shipped from far away. Agricultural sovereignty meets energy sovereignty — carried by the same field.
The house rule: put gas to work, never flare it
The reasoning goes beyond Sédigui: wherever gas rises with crude, the doctrine is the same — associated gas is put to work, not burned. Site electricity, cooking LPG against wood fuel, chemical feedstock: every m³ has a better use than the flare stack. It is the "zero routine flaring" commitment translated into value chains — completed by the LDAR programme targeting −92% fugitive emissions.
What EnerTchad brings
EnerTchad does not claim to develop Sédigui alone: the field belongs to the national cadastre, and its development will go through consortiums. Our role is the one we play everywhere — operator and technical partner: structuring the case with Atlas data, contributing the building blocks we develop (micro-grids, digital operations, the fertiliser chain), and training the crews with Tchaditude. The gas is in the country; the engineering should be too.
A sleeping field earns nothing for anyone. Awake, it lights the cities and feeds the fields.
A priority project in the portfolio
In our roadmap, "Fertiliser on Sédigui gas" is one of the flagship projects for the 2030 horizon — the priority chemical chain in the portfolio, in synergy with Sustainability (gas put to work rather than flared) and Advisory (the case structured by data). As with everything we publish: EnerTchad is a company in formation, and these chains are dated targets, not assets in operation. The detail lives on the Petrochemicals and Projects pages. But the conviction is simple: Chad’s finest molecule is not the one it exports — it is the one it transforms.