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Niger and Benin to
launch pipeline works
AFRICA THE Beninese government and West African link to a single-point mooring (SPM) for tanker
Oil Pipeline Benin Co. (Wapco Benin) will hold a loading.
ceremony this week to officially launch construc- According to Minister of Mines Samou
tion on the Niger-Benin Export Pipeline. Seïdou Adambi, Niger and CNPC’s first choice
Head of State Patrice Talon will visit the site of pipeline route was via Chad but “Talon took
of the terminal station at Sèmè-Kpodji, south of the lead and we went in search of this project”.
Cotonou. An agreement on the construction of the
Engineering work for the 1,980-km pipeline pipeline was recently signed in Beijing with
has already been carried out by firms linked CNPC subsidiary China National Oil and Gas
to backer China National Petroleum Corp. Exploration and Development Co. (CNODC).
(CNPC), with the Chinese company and partner The pipeline is expected to create 3,000 tem-
Wapco Benin kicking off the initial construction porary and 500 permanent jobs across the 18
phase in late 2019. The conduit will run 1,295 km municipalities through which it passes: Malan-
through Niger and 685 km through Beninese ville, Kandi, Gogounou, Bembèrèkè, N’Dali,
territory, linking Agadem to the port of Seme. Parakou, Tchaourou, Ouessè, Savè, Kétou,
It will have a throughput capacity of around Adja Ouèrè, Pobè, Sakété, Ifangni, Avrankou,
90,000 barrels per day (bpd) and commercial Adjarra and Sèmè-Kpodji. On May 15, Benin’s
operations are anticipated in early 2022. Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation
CNPC’s China Petroleum Technology & launched a web recruitment platform for these
Development Co. subsidiary is handling pro- opportunities.
curement for the project and 13,000 pipeline The Beninese section will feature pumping
segments were shipped from the port of Tianjin stations at Gogounou and Tchatchou.
to Benin in January 2020, with these arriving in Meanwhile, the small West African nation
Cotonou a month later. is understood to be considering developing an
Meanwhile, Australian engineering firm oil refinery and a committee has been formed
Worley has carried out design work for a 15-km, to assess the feasibility of constructing a unit
28-inch (711-mm) offshore pipeline that will through a public-private partnership.
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