The Nigerien government is maintaining its strategy of regaining control of strategic infrastructure in the hydrocarbon sector.
The Council of Ministers, meeting on Monday, May 18, adopted a draft decree establishing the Nigerien Inland Pipelines Company (SNPI), a public entity tasked with managing the country’s
main oil transport networks.
Niamey has just created the Nigerien Inland Pipelines Company (SNPI).
The new public company takes the form of a limited company with the state as its sole shareholder.
It falls within the framework of the national legal framework governing public enterprises, as well as the rules of the OHADA Uniform Act relating to company law.
According to the minutes of the Council of Ministers meeting, the SNPI’s primary mission will be the management, operation, maintenance, and security of hydrocarbon transport infrastructure via pipelines throughout the national territory.
It will also be responsible for studies related to the design, expansion, and modernisation of existing networks.
The government specifies that the company will notably manage the pipeline linking the Agadem area to the Zinder refinery (SORAZ), with the aim of ensuring the continuity of crude oil transport.
This decision comes in the context of the state taking back control of certain strategic infrastructures, including the Agadem-Zinder pipeline, now integrated into public assets following contractual provisions related to “cost oil.”
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