West African leaders approve Nigeria-Morocco gas pipeline
West African leaders have signed an agreement approving the construction of a gas pipeline linking Nigeria to Morocco at a summit of regional bloc ECOWAS in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown.
The roughly 6,000-kilometer Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline (NMGP) will cross 13 countries along Africa’s Atlantic coast, carrying Nigerian gas to Morocco before connecting to the Maghreb-Europe pipeline.
“We have already signed the West Africa-Morocco gas pipeline,” said ECOWAS chair Julius Maada Bio said on July 19. “Don’t be surprised when the gas comes your way.”
Morocco’s state hydrocarbons agency ONHYM and Nigeria’s state oil company NNPC said in a statement that the project aimed to link west Africa’s gas resources to major regional markets.
