Morocco and Senegal have engaged in discussions for more support towards seamless execution of the $25 billion Nigeria- Morocco gas pipeline project.
Senegal’s minister of Petroleum and Energies Antoine Felix Abdoulaye Diome reiterated his country’s support for the Nigeria-Morocco gas pipeline at the week during a meeting with Director General of Morocco’s Office of Hydrocarbons and Mines (ONHYM) Amina Benkhadra in Dakar.
LEADERSHIP reports that the Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline was proposed in a December 2016 agreement between the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, (NNPC) and the Moroccan Office National des Hydrocarbures et des Mines (National Board of Hydrocarbons and Mines) (ONHYM).
The pipeline would connect Nigerian gas to every coastal country in West Africa (Benin, Togo, Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gambia, Senegal, and Mauritania), ending at Tangiers, Morocco, and Cádiz, Spain.
It would apparently be an extension of the existing West African Gas Pipeline, which already connects Nigeria with Benin, Togo, and Ghana.
In August 2017, NNPC and ONHYM began a feasibility study for the pipeline.
Source: Leadership
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