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Oilserv hopes to participate in the construction of both gas pipelines

Nigeria’s Oilserv shows interest in building

natural gas pipelines to Morocco, Algeria

NIGERIA OILSERV, one of Nigeria’s largest oilfield ser- as a springboard for TSGP will create another
vices providers, has indicated that it is ready to route to the European market for Nigerian gas
participate in either of the two major natural gas via Algeria, which is a major supplier to buyers
pipeline projects that the national oil company in Europe, Okwuosa stated.
(NOC) is considering. “The project that is actually hot now and is on
Emeka Okwuosa, the chairman and CEO board in terms of process is the Nigeria-Mo-
of Oilserv, said on October 18 that his firm was rocco, which will run offshore West Africa to
interested in both the Nigeria-Morocco Gas North Africa. It will go all the way from the
Pipeline (NMGP), which envisions the con- Niger Delta to offshore Lagos. It will then go
struction of a 5,600-km offshore network, and through all the countries on the coast of West
the Trans-Sahara Gas Pipeline (TSGP), which Africa until it gets to Mauritania. And then it
calls for the building of an onshore network goes on land from the back of Mauritania to
from northern Nigeria to Algeria’s Hassi R’Mel Morocco, where it crosses the channel until it
field via Niger. gets to Spain. So these are the key pipelines that
Oilserv already has the experience and are upcoming.”
capacity necessary to carry out major pipeline Okwuosa indicated that Oilserv was not nec-
projects of this type, he stated during an interac- essarily expecting to be the leading contractor
tive online discussion with reporters. “Oilserv for pipeline construction but emphasised that
is always ready and well prepared to be able the company was eager to participate as the pro-
to make the difference in the delivery of the jects moved forward.
emerging pipeline projects in the continent,” he “[We] are very aware of the opportunities,
declared. and we have been part of that,” he said. “We
Okwuosa acknowledged that Nigerian know that it is a project that might require more
National Petroleum Co. Ltd. (NNPCL) had than one contractor to execute, but we want
recently signed several memoranda of under- to be part of it because we have the capacity to
standing (MoU) on the NMGP project. deliver our scopes.”
He pointed out, though, that the NOC also NNPCL and its contractors began building
remained interested in TSGP. the AKK pipeline along a 614-km route that
He noted that the latter would begin as an runs northward from the left bank of the Niger
extension of the Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) River in Kogi state to the capital city of Kano
pipeline, which is being built for the purpose state in June 2020. When finished, the pipe will
of transporting gas from fields in southern have a nameplate capacity of 99.11mn cubic
Nigeria to the northern regions of the country. metres per day of gas, or around 36.175bn cubic
Extending the AKK system so that it can serve metres per year.

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