NNPC to sign gas pipeline agreement with Morocco
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited will on Thursday sign a memorandum of understanding with the office national des hydrocarbures Et Des Mines of Morocco.
In a tweets via its official twitter handle on Wednesday, the NNPC stated that the MOU, which would be signed in Rabat, Morocco, would also involve the economic community of West African states.
The oil firm said the move is in line with federal government’s mandate to drive the execution of the 7,000km Nigeria Morocco gas pipeline project.
Group chief executive officer, NNPC Ltd, Mele Kyari, today (Wednesday) paid a courtesy call on the president, ECOWAS commission, Dr. Omar Touray.
Reports say the visit was in preparation of the signing of a memorandum of understanding scheduled to hold on September 15, 2022 in rabat, Morocco.
The NNPC stated that once completed, the project would supply about three billion standard cubic feet of gas along the West African coast from Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana, Cote D’ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Gambia, Senegal and Mauritania to Morocco.
