The National Office of Hydrocarbons and Mines of Morocco and the commission of the Economic Community of West African States will sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on a gas pipeline project with the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) today Thursday.
The 7,000 km Nigeria-Morocco gas pipeline project, which will increase supply to Europe, is anticipated to be driven by the MoU.
The Group Chief Executive Officer of NNPC Ltd., Mele Kyari, visited Dr. Omar Touray on Tuesday to discuss the signing of the deal, which is slated to take place on September 15, 2022, in Rabat, Morocco.
The NNPCL disclosed the meeting’s outcome on its Twitter account, stating that the form and the ECOWAS Commission both reiterated their commitment to supplying gas to West African nations via the kingdom of Morocco and ultimately to Europe.
In addition, the NNPC and Morocco’s ONHYM will also sign two MoUs with SMH of Mauritania and Petrosen of Senegal to participate in the project.
When completed, the project will supply about 3 billion standard cubit feet of gas along the coast of West Africa from Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana, Cote d’ Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Gambia, Senegal, Mauritania to Morocco.
According to the NNPCL, other benefits include improvement of living standards of people, integration of the economies within the sub-region, and mitigating against desertification through sustainable and reliable gas supply.
Additionally, it is anticipated to generate money, reduce poverty, aid in the battle against desertification through a sustainable and consistent gas supply, and open up opportunities for other nations along the pipeline path to develop and export their own gas.
The Maghreb European Pipeline is a 48 inch by 5,300 km (offshore Brass Island, Nigeria to Dakhla, Morocco) and 56 inch by 1,700 km (onshore from Dakhla, Morocco) pipeline with a total length of roughly over 7,000 km and a minimum of 13 compressor stations.
