Nigeria, through the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd, will on September 15 sign a memorandum of understanding with Morocco with supervision from ECOWAS for a 7,000km gas pipeline project.
NNPC stated this in a statement on Tuesday citing its Group Chief Executive Officer, Mele Kyari, saying so when he paid a visit to the President of the ECOWAS Commission, Dr Omar Touray, in Abuja.
The visit, according to NNPC, was in line with the federal government’s mandate to drive the execution of the 7000km Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline (NMGP) project.
It also said “the visit was in preparation for the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the NNPCL, Office National des Hydrocarbures et des Mines (ONHYM) of Morocco and the ECOWAS on September 15, 2022, in Rabat, Morocco.”
During the visit, NNPC and the ECOWAS Commission reaffirmed their commitment to the project, which, when completed, will provide gas to the West African countries through to the Kingdom of Morocco and subsequently to Europe.
The statement also said NNPC and ONHYM would sign two MoUs with Société Mauritanienne des Hydrocarbures (SMH) of Mauritania and Petrosen of Senegal, both of whom would participate in the project.
Once completed, the project will supply about three billion standard cubic feet per day (scfd) of gas along the West African coast from Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana, Cote D’ Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Gambia, Senegal and Mauritania to Morocco.
Other benefits of the NMGP Project include improving the living standards of people, integration of the economies within the sub-region and mitigating desertification through sustainable and reliable gas supply.
