Nigeria, Algeria and Niger have signed an agreement to build a pipeline across the Sahara that would link Europe to big west African gas reserves.
The Trans-Sahara Pipeline project, which would cost at least US$10 billion (Dh37.7bn) for the pipeline and another $3bn for gas-gathering centres, could make up to 3 billion cubic feet per day of new gas supplies available to Europe while providing an outlet for African gas that is currently wasted.
The landmark development, which could be in service between by 2015, would send Nigerian gas more than 4,000km across the desert through Niger to Algeria, which already exports gas to Europe through two pipelines under the Mediterranean to Spain.
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