Nigeria and Morocco have completed the feasibility study for the construction of the five thousand six hundred and sixty kilometer Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline and the facility will supply gas to at least fifteen countries in West Africa,

The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Maikanti Baru, announced this yesterday in Abuja.

Mr. Baru also stated that pre-Front End Engineering Design optimisation study for the pipeline was currently ongoing, adding that the facility would boost the region’s industries when completed.

This is coming as the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Mr. Ibe Kachikwu, announced that African countries were mobilising about two hundred billion dollars to develop a financing body that will fund the energy sector.