The US$ 2.6 billion project, is a build-and-transfer Public-Private Partnership (PPP) that will be built by two Chinese companiesNigeria has launched a massive gas pipeline project that will run from Ajaokuta town to Kano through Kaduna to link the north of the country with the south. President Buhari launched the 614-kilometer Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) gas pipeline project on Tuesday in a meeting conducted virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The first phase of the gas pipeline project will supply gas to three electricity power stations and later to North Africa. The Trans-Nigeria Gas Pipeline project will transport 3,500 million metric standard cubic feet per day of dehydrated gas from several gas gathering projects located in southern Nigeria. ALSO READ: Nigeria’s largest gas pipeline project completion date pushedAccording to Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the completion of the project will also facilitate the revival of declining industries and the development of new ones on the pipeline’s transit towns.

Source: The North Africa Journal July 03, 2020 14:21 UTC