Construction of the Nigeria-Morocco gas pipeline is scheduled to begin in 2024, Ekperikpe Ekpo, Nigeria’s minister of petroleum resources, announced on the sidelines of a meeting with Moroccan officials, Nigerian news agency reported.
The Nigerian official assured Morocco that his country is ready to start the project and reiterated the need to supply gas to the African continent before exporting it to other destinations.
The exchange with the Moroccan delegation, he added, also focused on the development of the OCP Group’s fertilizer plant in northern Nigeria.
The Nigeria-Morocco gas pipeline is expected to extend over 5,600 km, snaking from Brass Island to Bayelsa, through 11 countries, namely Benin, Togo, Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gambia, Senegal and Mauritania.
It will end in northern Morocco, from where the gas will be exported to Europe.
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