King Mohammed VI, and Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari signed Sunday, 10th of June, in the royal palace in Rabat three cooperation agreements, including an agreement on the Nigeria-Morocco onshore/ offshore gas pipeline, says MAP news agency. «The Nigerian and Moroccan parties have worked effectively and constructively to ensure that the feasibility study for the pipeline», said Farouk Garba Said, General Manager of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), and Amina Benkhadra, Director General of the Moroccan Office for Hydrocarbons and Mining. «For economic, political, legal and security reasons, the choice was made on a combined onshore / offshore route». Farouk Garba Said and Amina Benkhadra «The pipeline is approximately 5,660 km long and its CAPEX has been evaluated», they said, noting that construction will be phased and meet the growing needs of the countries and Europe over the next 25 years. The two officials shed light on the many contributions of this strategic project, including the regional collaboration between Morocco, Nigeria, Mauritania and the ECOWAS countries in order to promote trade and development. Morocco and Nigeria agreed to the construction of a gas pipeline during a state visit of King Mohammed VI to the West African country in December 2016. King Mohammed VI and President Muhammadu Buhari, chaired the signing ceremony of two other bilateral cooperation agreements. The first is a Memorandum of Understanding between the OCP Group and the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority for the development of an industrial platform in Nigeria for the production of ammonia and related products. The second agreement is a cooperation agreement in agricultural vocational training and technical supervision between the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Rural Development, Water and Forests, and the Nigerian Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
