Morocco, Nigeria, Mauritania and Senegal to sign gas pipeline MoU in Rabat

In a series of tweets, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) announced the signing of the gas pipeline Memorandum of Understanding with the National Office of Hydrocarbons and Mines of Morocco.

The signing will take place in Rabat on Thursday and it will involve the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).

NNPC’s chief executive officer paid a courtesy call to the ECOWAS president Dr. Omar Touray, according to the oil firm, as a preparation for the signing of the MoU.

The NNPC and ONHYM would also sign two MoUs with the Mauritania Hydrocarbons company and Petrosen of Senegal, both of whom are expected to participate in the current project, added the firm according to Punch.

The NNPC declared that once completed, the project would supply about three billion standard cubic feet 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.

The strategic project of the Morocco-Nigeria gas pipeline will contribute to the emergence of an integrated North-West African zone.

It aims to create a competitive regional electricity market, exploitation of clean energy, and contribution to the industrial and economic development of all countries through the development of several sectors such as agriculture, industry, mining, the reduction of flaring, as well as the export of gas in Europe.

The pipeline will cross about 15 West African countries to Morocco and then to Spain.