The Nigerian Ministry of Energy is reported as saying that a compressor had been fixed at the Nigeria end of the pipeline, and with a similar component scheduled for the Ghana end coming soon, “we could be powering electricity into the country soon since everything is being done to ensure that we have power flowing by the first or second quarter of next year.”
The $700-m WAGP Project was initiated in 1994, and is intended to provide cheaper, reliable energy supply through gas-powered power stations fuelled from the WAGP to promote investment for strategic variety of industries. A document on the project outlined that numerous primary sector as well as service sector jobs would be generated as a result of the project. The project is expected to generate $800m in new industries across the West Africa Sub-Region, and will improved the competitiveness of the energy sectors in Ghana, Benin, and Togo by promoting the use of cheaper and environmentally-cleaner gas from Nigeria. The sponsors estimate the new pipeline to cost about $590m, while additional compression-related costs are estimated to be about $110m over 20 years.