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Nigeria National Petroleum Corp has said that the $12 billion Trans-Saharan gas pipeline project is on track.

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Trans-Sahara Gas Pipeline on Track

Nigeria National Petroleum Corp (NNPC) has said that the $12 billion Trans-Saharan gas pipeline project is on track, Businessday Online has reported. The pipeline will supply Nigerian gas to Algeria and Europe via Niger.

Tumini Green, the acting Group General Manager, Public Affairs Division, NNPC, said the project was ongoing contrary to speculations that it had been abandoned.

"The project is ongoing in spite of the numerous challenges threatening to stall it. The Memorandum of Understanding between Nigeria and Algeria has been signed; feasibility study for the project has been concluded and the process of laying pipes from Calabar through Kano is about to begin," Green was quoted by the daily as saying.

The project was first proposed in the 70s but work actually started on it in January 2002 when NNPC and the Algerian National Oil and Gas Company (Sonatrach), signed a memorandum of understanding for the project.

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