The Summit of Heads of State and Government of the member countries of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Sunday signed an Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) in Freetown, Sierra Leone, governing the development of the Nigeria-Morocco African Atlantic Gas Pipeline (AAGP), a nearly 6,800 kilometers energy infrastructure that will transport natural gas from Nigeria to Morocco, before connecting to the European gas network.
According to MAP, the signing marks the endorsement by the ECOWAS Member States of the Nigeria-Morocco AAGP, an initiative launched by His Majesty King Mohammed VI and former Nigerian President, the late Muhammadu Buhari, with the continued support of current President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
The project is being jointly developed by Morocco’s National Office of Hydrocarbons and Mines (ONHYM) and the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd).
The agreement paves the way for the next implementation phase, which will notably include the establishment of the Project Company, to be headquartered in Casablanca, as well as the Pipeline Higher Authority, whose headquarters are planned for Abuja, ahead of the mobilization of investors and the preparation of the Final Investment Decision (FID).
