Nigeria, Libya in talks over 5,600km gas pipeline

During talks at the Gastech Exhibition and Conference in Houston, Texas. Nigeria’s oil minister Ekperikpe Ekpo spoke with his Libyan counterpart Khalifa AbduAlsadik about building a multi-billion-dollar gas pipeline between their countries. The pipeline would stretch 5,600km and would ultimately transmit gas to energy-poor Europe. It would also distribute it to 12 African countries on the way. Namely: Benin, Togo, Ghana, Cote D’Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Gambia, Senegal, Mauritania, and Morocco.