The Nigeria-Morocco gas pipeline project is still “at the feasibility study stage,” Nigerian Oil Minister Timipre Sylva told. The countries concerned by this project had already given their agreements, but no date for the start of the work has been fixed, specifies Sylva.
New partners from West Africa have indeed joined the two founders of the project. Rabat hosted, on December 5, the signing of five tripartite Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs), respectively and successively between Morocco and Nigeria, on the one hand, and Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Ghana, on the other.
ONHYM and NNPC had already signed, on September 15 in Rabat, an MoU with ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States). On October 15 in Nouakchott, the two sides had reached similar agreements with Mauritania and Senegal.
The Nigeria-Morocco gas pipeline project is an initiative of King Mohammed VI and President Muhammadu Buhari, launched from Abuja in 2016 during a royal visit. After two terms at the head of the country, Buhari is preparing to leave power in the coming weeks. The presidential elections that took place last week favored the candidate of the ruling party in Nigeria, Bola Tinubuselon, according to the official results announced on Wednesday by the National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The Nigeria-Morocco gas pipeline will run along the West African coast from Nigeria, passing through Benin, Togo, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Gambia, Senegal and Mauritania to Morocco. It will be connected to the Maghreb-Europe Gas Pipeline and the European gas network. This infrastructure will also supply the landlocked states of Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali.
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