The proposed African Atlantic Gas Pipeline has moved closer to implementation after Heads of State of the Economic Community of West African States signed the Intergovernmental Agreement for the project at the ECOWAS Summit in Freetown, Sierra Leone, at the weekend.
The agreement provides the sovereign backing required to advance the ambitious pipeline project, which is designed to link Nigeria’s gas resources with markets across West Africa, the Sahel, Morocco and Europe.
The development was disclosed in a statement issued on Monday by the Chief Corporate Communications Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, Andy Odeh.
The AAGP, which is being jointly promoted by NNPC Limited and Morocco’s Office National des Hydrocarbures et des Mines, is planned to stretch nearly 6,900 kilometres along the West African Atlantic coast.
The pipeline is expected to transport 30 billion cubic metres of natural gas annually, connecting gas-producing countries with major demand centres and landlocked countries in the Sahel.
