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Keeping Partners at Pipe's Length [ Minerals In Numbers ] How many oil and gas pipelines are there in Africa? ... and where do they lead? ⏩ The response is 16,000 kilometres - that is the approximate total length of all cross border oil and gas pipelines that start or end in Africa. They include oil lines like Niger–Benin, Chad–Cameroon, Tazama and gas lines such as the West African Gas Pipeline, the Mozambique–South Africa line. A length sufficient to twice circle Pluto, or to two-way pipeline connection between South Africa and Tunisia, indefinitely moving oil back and forth. Very cool, well done, we've build so much infrastructure - now what? ⏩The interesting part starts when we look at where the pipes lead. Roughly half of those 16,000 kilometres move natural gas, much of it from Algeria and Libya under the Mediterranean to Europe. The rest are oil and product lines that connect a few coastal hubs to inland suppliers like Niger or South Sudan. 🔸 Most countries that produce oil and gas still lack infrastructure to ensure accessible domestic supply - that is, in many countries, both inland and coastal, there is no national gas and oil supply grids. The pipeline maps are not just for infrastructure lovers. They define the way economies grow. When there is a pipe shipping gas to Europe and no pipes sending it to the nearest factory - guess where the industry will thrive? #MineralsInNumbers Devils Below