NIGERIA - Europe-Bound & Regional Export Pipelines.Abuja and Algiers are negotiating a long-dormant project to have a $7 bn gas pipeline to Europe running from Ajaokuta in central Nigeria to pass through Abuja and Kano in the north. It would then cross Niger to southern Algeria and link up with Algeria's line to Europe through Spain. After more than a decade of talks, in August 1998 a consortium of Chevron, Shell, NNPC NNPC Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation NNPC Nigerian National Petroleum Company , Ghana National Petroleum Corp. (GNPC GNPC Ghana National Petroleum Corporation GNPC Global Navigation & Planning Chart GNPC Glass Nickel Pizza Company (Wisconsin) ), Societe Beninoise de Gaz (SoBeGaz) and Societe Togolaise de Gaz (SoToGaz) signed an agreement for a feasibility study "A Feasibility Study" is an episode of the original The Outer Limits television show. It first aired on 13 April, 1964, during the first season. It was remade in 1997 as part of the revived The Outer Limits series with a minor title change. on the West Africa West Africa A region of western Africa between the Sahara Desert and the Gulf of Guinea. It was largely controlled by colonial powers until the 20th century. West African adj. & n. Gas Pipeline (WAGP WAGP West African Gas Pipeline WAGP We Are God's People ). Completed in March 1999, this concluded its commercial and technical viability. A JV agreement naming Chevron as the $500m WAGP project manager was signed on Aug. 16, 1999. In February 2003 the four nations signed an agreement on implementation of the WAGP. The treaty, for a 20-year period, provides for a legal, fiscal and regulatory framework, as well as a single authority for implementation of the project. The WAGP partners are ChevronTexaco (36.7%), NNPC (25%), Shell (18%), Ghana's Volta River Authority The Volta River Authority (VRA) is the main generator and supplier of electricity in Ghana. Establishment The VRA was established by the Volta River Development Act, Act 46 of the Republic of Ghana on April 26, 1961. (16.3%) and SoBeGaz and SoToGaz each with 2%. The WAGP will run 1,033 km onshore and offshore from Nigeria's Niger Delta to its terminus in Ghana. The first part - the 900 MCF/d Escravos-Lagos line - started up in 1989 supplying gas to the Egbin power plant and other industrial consumers in Lagos and Ogun States. But most of this capacity is not used. A 57-km onshore part of the WAGP will run from Alagbado to Seme beach in Lagos State. It will continue offshore, with proposed landfall land·fall n. 1. The act or an instance of sighting or reaching land after a voyage or flight. 2. The land sighted or reached after a voyage or flight. spurs at Cotonou (Benin), Lome (Togo), Tema (Ghana), Takoradi (Ghana) and Effasu (Ghana). A capacity of 200 MCF/d will expand to 600 MCF/d as demand grows. The WAGP will carry 120 MCF/d to Ghana, Benin and Togo from June 2005. Sales will rise to 150 MCF/d in 2007, 210 MCF/d in seven years and reach 400 MCF/d 15 years after construction. About $600m will be spent on development of new and renovated power plants in the four states to utilise the gas. The WAGP could be extended to Cote d'Ivoire and Senegal. |
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