Nigeria Plans Pipeline Infrastructure To Deliver Gas To Europe

Nigeria is working on a network pipeline infrastructure that would deliver gas from Nigeria to Europe.

Gatekeepers News reports that Mele Kyari, the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, revealed this during his speech at the Atlantic Council Global Energy Forum, held in Dubai.

The forum is an international gathering of government, industry, and thought leaders to set the energy agenda for the year.

The NNPC boss noted that Nigeria is shifting away from dirtier fuel to cleaner alternatives, according to him, gas was the choice of transition fuel.

“What we are doing is some kind of replacement such that we move from the dirtier fuel to cleaner fuel which is gas,” Kyari said.

“And what we had to do is to build the enormous gas infrastructure required to ensure that there is sufficient supply of gas into the domestic market and provide some for the international market.

“And more than that, within the West African context, you will see that energy inefficiency and poverty that you see in Nigeria is also in many West African countries around us.

“Therefore, we are trying to see how we can build a network of pipeline infrastructure that will deliver gas and potentially jump into Europe through Morocco or Algeria.”