Gas Pipeline: NNPCL Signs MoU With Five African Countries

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) has signed five memoranda of understanding with the national oil companies of five African countries on the Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline Project.

According to a statement released by NNPC on Monday, the signing ceremony was held in Morocco and was attended by Mele Kyari, the group’s CEO, Dr. Amina Benkhadra, the general director of Morocco’s National Office of Hydrocarbons and Mines, Mr. Baboucarr Njie, the managing director of the Gambia National Petroleum Corporation, and Celedonio Placido Viera, the general director of PETROGUIN, Guinea-Bissau.

The five national oil companies and relevant entities were from Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau and Sierra Leone.

Speaking at the event, Kyari commended NNPC’s partners – ONHYM, who had worked with the NNPC Limited all through the years to bring the Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline Project to limelight.

Kyari said it was comforting to witness the steady growth of the project, especially with the inclusion of NNPC’s counterparts and key institutions from other African countries through execution of the relevant Memoranda of Understanding.

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He said, “Today, we will be attaining another feat by signing five MoUs with the national oil companies and relevant entities from Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau and Sierra Leone.

“From inception of the project to this stage, concerted efforts have been made by the governments of Nigeria and the Kingdom of Morocco, which led to the very commendable achievements recorded thus far.”

The Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline Project, once finished, will provide three billion standard cubic feet of gas per day along the West African coast from Nigeria to Morocco, via Benin, Togo, Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, and Gambia.