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The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is hosting a regional workshop in Lagos Oct. 8 through 11 to review and validate the Host Government Agreement (HGA) for the Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline project. The workshop is a key step in the development of the gas pipeline, a strategic project spearheaded by King Mohammed VI […]
A final investment decision (FID) to build the Nigeria-Morocco gas pipeline is expected to be reached by the end of 2024, chief of state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) said. The pipeline, to cost about $25 billion, runs 7000 kilometers both on-shore but mostly offshore. “There is ongoing engagement on the Nigeria Morocco Gas Pipeline […]
The military coup in Niger has added political instability to terrorism risks in a region beset with violent extremism and weak states making Algeria’s ambitions to establish a gas pipeline channelling Nigerian gas an unfeasible project. Algeria has for long fantasized about a pipeline to transport Nigerian gas to Europe, a project that has been […]
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPCL) will invest $12.5 billion to secure a 50% stake in the $25 billion Nigeria-Morocco gas pipeline project. This historic project is expected to set a record as the world’s longest offshore gas pipeline, covering some 5,600 km across 11 African countries. NNPCL and Morocco’s National Office of Hydrocarbons and […]
The technical committee of the Nigeria-Morocco gas pipeline project, composed of representatives of the oil companies of Senegal, Mauritania and Nigeria, ECOWAS and Morocco, held a meeting in Rabat November 7 to 11 to discuss the progress of this strategic project. The meeting took place just a day after King Mohammed VI highlighted the strategic […]
King Mohammed VI has pointed out this Sunday that he considers the Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline project as “a project for peace, for African economic integration and for co- development.” “This is a project for peace, for African economic integration and for co- development: a project for the present and for future generations,” said the Sovereign […]
The Nigeria-Morocco gas pipeline project is a genuine powerful tool for development and regional integration, stressed, in Abidjan, Director General of Morocco’s National Office of Hydrocarbons and Mines (ONHYM), Amina Benkhadra. “It is a transformative project for our continent,” said Benkhadra who was speaking before a panel of investors on the sidelines of the 3rd […]
Two Memoranda of Understanding on the Nigeria-Morocco gas pipeline were signed on Saturday in Nouakchott, Mauritania, to advance the progress of the project which aims to turn Africa into a self-reliant continent in terms of gas supply. The first MoU was signed by Morocco’s National Office of Hydrocarbons and Mines (ONHYM), the National Nigerian Petroleum […]
The contribution of African gas, through the Nigeria-Morocco pipeline project, would strengthen Europe’s energy independence, a necessary precondition for its strategic autonomy, says Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South (PCNS), Jamal Machrouh. In a policy brief, the academic puts forward six arguments to support the existence and relevance of such an […]
The Nigeria-Morocco gas pipeline will open a new energy-supply route for West Africa and Europe, Bloomberg pointed out, recalling that the two countries signed Thursday an agreement that inches a long-standing proposal for a gas pipeline between the two countries closer to reality. The agreement signing ceremony took place at a time European nations are […]