Nigeria-Morocco gas pipeline: steering committees review progress in Rabat

Saturday 12 July 2025 - 14:35

The steering and technical committees for the Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline project convened on July 10 and 11 in Rabat to review the latest progress. These high-level meetings, organized under the governance framework of the project and in line with signed agreements between national oil companies, brought together directors general and their teams from the countries traversed by the African Atlantic Gas Pipeline (AGA).

Also present were representatives from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), including the Commissioner for Infrastructure, Energy and Digitalization, as well as officials from Morocco’s Ministry of Energy Transition and Sustainable Development, the National Office of Electricity and Drinking Water (ONEE), and the Moroccan Agency for Sustainable Energy (MASEN).

The project has made significant advances on technical, environmental, and institutional fronts. Detailed engineering studies were completed in 2024, while survey and environmental and social impact assessments for the northern section have been finalized. The southern section (Nigeria to Senegal) assessments are currently underway.

Designed to transport 30 billion cubic meters of gas annually, the project will be developed in phases. A holding project company will oversee governance through financing and construction, managing three special purpose vehicles (SPVs) for the defined segments.

An intergovernmental agreement outlining the rights and obligations of each participating country was adopted in December 2024 at ECOWAS’s 66th summit.

Additionally, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between Nigeria’s National Petroleum Company (NNPC), Morocco’s ONHYM, and Togo’s gas company SOTOGAZ, marking SOTOGAZ’s official entry into the project consortium.

Initiated jointly by Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and His Majesty King Mohammed VI of Morocco, the pipeline aims to promote African development, improve living conditions, and enhance regional economic integration. The pipeline will run along the Atlantic coast from Nigeria through Benin, Togo, Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, The Gambia, Senegal, Mauritania, and end in Morocco. It will connect to the Maghreb-Europe pipeline and the European gas network and supply gas to Niger, Burkina Faso, and Mali.

This strategic infrastructure project is part of Morocco’s Atlantic Initiative and is expected to bring significant economic and social benefits to all involved countries.