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🇹🇩Chinese Matchmaker Chinese interests as a common ground for Niger and Chad 🌐The Minister of Petroleum of Chad, Ndolonogie Naimbaye Alixe, has just concluded a very fruitful visit to Niger, during which representatives of Chad’s oil regulator ARSAT, the Nigerian public oil company SONIDEP and banking institution BSIC Tchad signed an agreementon the supply of fuel from Niger to Chad. 🔸 Although Chad exports crude oil, Chadians themselves suffer from fuel shortages. According to media reports, the country’s only refinery near N'Djamena is underoperating at around 1/3 to 2/3 of its maximum capacity. ⏩But the fuel sales do not tell the whole story here. Judging by the media reports and the presence of representatives of the Chinese oil giant CNPC at the meeting(the man dozing sweetly on the right side of the photo), another important topic of the meeting was the proposed Niger-Chad-Cameroon oil pipeline project. 🔸 The pipeline was supposed to connect CNPC's assets in Niger and Chad with an export port in Cameroon, but the project was put on hold in 2019 due to misunderstandings between the neighboring governments. Now that the countries are facing the need to relaunch their collaboration, CNPC will spare no effort to build to line of cooperation from crude deposits in Niger and Chad all the way to the Gulf of Guinea. Devils Below