MON. 28 NOV, 2022-theGBJournal| ECOWAS Ministers of Mining and Hydrocarbons has approved the merger of the West Africa Gas Pipeline Extension Project (WAGPEP) and the Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline Project (NMGP) into a “Unique project.”
The Ministers also proposed new route, ”considering that the merging will make it possible to federate efforts for the more diligent development of this infrastructure.”
They also recommended that a community act be adopted by the Authority of Head of States and Government on this new development.
The approval followed the joint Meeting of the ECOWAS Ministers of Mining and Hydrocarbons held on the 25th of November 2022 in Dakar, Senegal.
The Ministerial meeting was preceded by a meeting of Joint National Mining and Hydrocarbons Experts from the 23rd to 24th of November 2022.
The West Africa Gas Pipeline, the first such pipeline in sub-Sahara Africa, is a 678-kilometre long gas transmission system, built to carry gas from Nigeria’s Niger Delta to Ghana via Benin and Togo.
Its expansion plan was first proposed in 2016 following an agreement drawn up between the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (now NNPC Ltd) and the Morocco’s Office National des Hydrocarbures et des Mines (ONHYM) with the intention to run the pipeline to connect Nigeria gas to West Africa’s coastal countries, and ending at Tangiers, Morocco.
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