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(Bloomberg) — Algeria said it started building a pipeline to stretch across the Sahara, a project first proposed decades ago to supply gas from Nigeria and the region to customers in Europe.
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The 1,210-kilometer (752 miles) section in Algeria will be built by state-owned Sonatrach and connect to an existing gas pipeline system in the Aoulef region that supplies Europe, Issam Gaba, a director of pipeline studies at the company, said in a presentation on Thursday. The North African country is already a major gas provider to Spain, Italy and France, and is looking to boost energy flows further to meet demand in Europe.
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The entire Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline is intended to run 4,128 kilometers through Nigeria, Niger and Algeria. First envisaged in the 1970s, plans for the link were periodically revived in the early 2000s before stalling.The countries backed the link again in 2022 as Russia’s invasion Ukraine created a gas shortage in Europe, according to the US International Trade Administration, which said back then the project might cost about $13 billion.
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Another regional project to transport gas to Europe has also progressed in recent months. Morocco’s state-controlled natural resources company is considering raising funds for a pipeline to link fields in Nigeria, Senegal and Mauritania to 10 neighboring African countries including Morocco. The structure is slated to link to the existing Maghreb-Europe Gas Pipeline that connects Morocco to Spain.
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For the Trans-Saharan pipeline, construction work on a 720-kilometer segment through Niger will begin in early 2027 in partnership with Sonatrach, Niger’s Minister of Petroleum Hamadou Tini told reporters at the event in Aoulef region in the southwestern Algeria, located about 1,100 kilometers from Algiers, the capital.
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The project will also need to take into account ongoing security concerns in Niger, where violent extremism threatens the region.
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Nigeria’s Minister of Petroleum Resources Ekperikpe Ekpo said his country was committed to supply gas to the pipeline.
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