FG okays NNPC, ECOWAS deal on Nigeria-Morocco gas pipeline
The federal government has given approval for the NNPC to enter into an agreement with ECOWAS to construct the Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline.
Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, briefed State House correspondents after Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday.
“The Ministry of Petroleum Resources presented three memos to the council.
“The first memo, the council approved for the NNPC Ltd to execute MoU with ECOWAS for the construction of the Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline.
“This gas pipeline is to take gas to 15 West African countries and to Morocco and through Morocco to Spain and Europe,’’ he said.
Mr Sylva said that the project was still at the point of the frontend engineering design, after which the cost would be determined.
The minister said that the council also approved the construction of a switchgear room and installation of power distribution cables and equipment for the Nigeria oil and gas park in Ogbia, Bayelsa, in the sum of N3.8billion.
He said that the park was to support local manufacturing of components for the oil and gas industry.
More so, Mr Sylva said that FEC approved various contracts to construct an access road with bridges to the Brass Petroleum Product Deport in Inibomoyekiri in Brass Local Government in the sum of N11 billion plus 7.5 per cent VAT.
Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline was proposed in a December 2016 agreement between the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (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.
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