The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved for the
NNPC to enter into an agreement with ECOWAS for the construction of the
Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline.
Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva,
briefed State House correspondents after the FEC meeting presided by Vice
President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Sylva said the project was still at the point of the front
end engineering design after which the cost would be determined.
The pipeline would traverse 15 West African countries to
Morocco and Spain.
“The Ministry of Petroleum Resources presented three memos
to Council.
“The first memo, Council approved for the NNPC Ltd to
execute MoU with ECOWAS for the construction of the Nigeria-Morocco Gas
Pipeline.
“This gas pipeline is to take gas to 15 West African
countries and to Morocco and through Morocco to Spain and Europe,’’ he said.
The minister said the council also approved the construction
of a switchgear room and installation of power distribution cables and
equipment for the Nigeria oil and gas park in Ogbia, Bayelsa, in the sum of
N3.8billion.
He said the park was to support local manufacturing of components
for the oil and gas industry.
More so, Sylva said that FEC approved various contracts for
the construction of an access road with bridges to the Brass Petroleum Product
Deport in Inibomoyekiri in Brass Local Government in the sum of N11billion plus
7.5 per cent VAT.
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