The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited and the Office National des Hydrocarbures et des Mines of Morocco signed a Memorandum of Understanding to begin work on a 5,600 kilometer gas pipeline between the two countries.
Following the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the two countries and the Economic Community of West African States in Rabat, Morocco, according to NNPC, the much-anticipated Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline project officially got underway.
According to the statement, the two nations and ECOWAS carried out the MoU agreement on the project, which was an important step in achieving the Federal Government’s goal of utilizing Nigeria’s plentiful gas resources.
The NMGP is a 5,600 kilometer gas pipeline project that will eventually connect 13 African nations and supply gas from Nigeria to West African nations all the way up to the Kingdom of Morocco, then to Europe.
Once finished, the project will provide three billion standard cubic feet of gas per day along the West African coast from Nigeria to Morocco, via Benin, Togo, Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, and Gambia.
Mele Kyari, the Group Chief Executive Officer of NNPC Ltd, signed the contract on behalf of Nigeria, while Dr. Amina Benkhadra, the Director-General of Morocco’s National Office for Hydrocarbons and Mines, did the same.
Mr. Sediko Douka, the ECOWAS Commissioner for Infrastructure, Energy, and Digitalization, signed on behalf of the sub-regional group.
Kyari thanked President Muhammadu Buhari and His Royal Majesty, King Mohammed VI of Morocco for entrusting NNPC Ltd and ONHYM with the strategic project and said that from the project’s inception to this point, coordinated efforts by the governments of both countries had resulted in the successes recorded thus far.
The Maghreb European Pipeline, which runs from Algeria (through Morocco) all the way to Spain, will be connected to the pipeline when it reaches its termination point in North Morocco, which is where the pipeline runs from Brass Island in Nigeria.
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