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Algerian, Niger, and Nigerien energy ministers signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the construction of a 4,000 km gas pipeline across the Sahara Desert. It will supply Europe with additional gas
Algerian, Niger, and Nigerien energy ministers signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the construction of a 4,000 km gas pipeline across the Sahara Desert. It will supply Europe with additional gas.
The Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline (TSGP), should send billions of cubic meters of Nigerian gas to Algeria via Niger. Algeria will then send it to the countries in Europe via the Transmed which connects the country to Italy through Tunisia. The LNG (liquefied natural gas) will be transported by tankers.
The Algerian Minister of Energy and Mines, Mohamed Arkab, and his counterparts from Nigeria, Timipre Sylva, and Niger, Mahamane Sani Mahamadou, signed the memorandum of understanding in Algiers during the 3rd tripartite meeting. They discussed aspects of the project including the status of progress. However, there is no indication has been given as to when the project will be completed.
The project was launched in 2009. At that time, the project cost of the Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline (TSGP) was estimated at US$10 billion. The pipeline spanning 4,128 km of which 1,037 km are in Nigeria, 841 km in Niger, and 2,310 km in Algeria, will connect the gas fields of Nigeria, through Niger, to the Algerian border to connect to the Algerian network.
The TSGP will also allow on its way the supply of the regions of the Sahel countries. This project has been reactivated in a geopolitical context. There is a strong international demand for gas and oil and a surge in prices triggered by the Russian-Ukraine war.
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Algeria’s proven natural gas reserves amount to nearly 2,400 billion m3. It supplied around 11% of the gas consumed in Europe before the war in Ukraine. Russia’s share was 47%. It is the first African exporter of natural gas and the 7th in the world.
