ON Monday, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited announced that it was working on constructing pipelines to transport gas from Nigeria to Europe.
Mele Kyari, the Group Managing Director of NNPC, made the announcement while addressing digitally at the Atlantic Council Global Energy Forum. The United Arab Emirates hosted the forum.
He added that Nigeria was transitioning from dirtier fuels to cleaner energy, and that the Federal Government had chosen gas as Nigeria’s transition fuel.
Kyari said, “What we are doing is some kind of replacement such that we move from the dirtier fuel to cleaner fuel which is gas.
“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.”
He added, “Therefore, we are trying to see how we can build a network of pipeline infrastructure that will deliver gas and potentially to jump into Europe through Morocco or through Algeria.”
Nigeria’s Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, told a European Union delegation on Friday that the country was prepared to act as an alternative gas supplier to Europe.
Sylva, on the other hand, asked the European Union to increase gas and hydrocarbon investments in Nigeria so that the country can help meet the EU’s energy needs.
His call came as a result of the ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia, which has put European gas supplies in jeopardy.
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