Nigeria's Minister of Petroleum, Timipre Sylva has announced the search for funds to finance a mega-pipeline project to bring Nigerian gas to North Africa and Europe.

The pipeline would be an extension of a gas pipeline carrying gas from southern Nigeria to Benin, Ghana and Togo since 2010. Four years ago, Morocco's King Mohammed VI and Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari agreed on a mega-project to transport gas along the Atlantic coast, over more than 3,000 km. An agreement between the two countries was first signed in 2016.