Ivory Coast Wants to Import LNG from Nigeria

Ivory Coast has shown interest in importing LNG from Nigeria for power generation, Nigerian newspaper This Day reported Friday.

The development was a positive one in Nigeria's move to seek broader frontiers for its LNG away from the traditional Asian-pacific hub, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) stated.

In a statement NNPC's Group General Manager Public Affairs Division, Ohi Alegbe, said that the package would see Nigeria commit a small chunk of its daily LNG output which stands at over three billion cubic feet of gas per day, to its sub-regional neighbours in the first instance before the eventual extension of the West Africa Gas Pipeline to Cote d'Ivoire and Senegal, This Day reported.

A delegation from Ivory Coast’s energy ministry met NNPC officials on Thursday.

West African Gas pipeline terminates in Ghana, so the delegation has come to request that Nigeria bring gas to them in the first instance by LNG and ultimately in the future by extension of the pipeline, NNPC said.