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Gas for Everyone🏭 Nigeria is nearing the completion of a gas pipeline to northern regions, but which ones? 🌐 Summing up the outgoing year, the head of Nigeria’s NNPC said that engineers are already welding the final seams on the 600-kilometer Trans-Nigeria gas pipeline, which will for the first time connect the country’s northern regions to the gas fields in the South. Naturally, the construction of the pipeline promises ⚡️immediate economic growth⚡️. However, the question of to what extent this gas pipeline is really meant for northern Nigeria remains open. If the goal were simply to supply the region with fuels, sources in neighboring Niger and Chad might have sufficed. 🔗 Beyond supplying gas to remote regions, the project has another purpose. It is the starting point for a roughly4,000-kilometer pipeline across Africa to Europe, which the same NNPC hopes to build together with Algeria’s Sonatrach by 2030. 🔽 In that sense, the “northern regions” this pipeline ultimately leads to could turn out to be Italy, Spain, and other European folks who will certainly have more money to buy gas than any entrepreneurs in northern Nigeria. On the other hand, no one knows when the mega-pipeline will actually be completed — so the Nigerian north still has a chance. ➡️ Follow to stay informed - @devilsbelow