The Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Yusuf Usman, has indicated that the Nigerian federal government is preparing to build the gas pipeline connecting Nigeria and Morocco.
In an interview with the daily “Nigerian News Direct”, the CEO of NNPC, said that the Nigerian Executive has developed plans for the realization of this major project. The feasibility study has been completed and the final financing decision is being validated. Nigeria will immediately launch the gas decade master plan to consolidate the viability of this major project, he added.
In this sense, he recalled that this great project, the realization of which was recorded with the signing of an agreement between Morocco and Nigeria during a ceremony under the presidency of King Mohammed VI and Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari , will follow the route of the West African gas pipeline and will benefit several countries of the continent.
And to explain that some of these countries have gas fields whose production will be injected into the pipeline, while other non-gas producing countries will benefit from it for development purposes.
Yusuf Usman, in this regard, stressed that “if they cannot afford gas, they can get electricity”, noting that this is a new vision of development that is necessary for the Africa.
As a reminder, the Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline, launched in 2016 in Abuja under the presidency of King Mohammed VI and Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, will link Nigeria’s gas resources, those of several West African countries and Morocco and will thus promote regional economic integration.
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