- West African Gas Pipeline Project will provide gas fuel to power-stations and industries in four west African countries: Nigeria, Benin, Togo and Ghana. At the "Oil and Gas Africa '99 conference and exhibition in Accra, Ghana, April 27, 1999 a paper entitled: "The road to success on the West African Pipeline Project" was issued which highlighted the following. Click here for an alternative to fossil based energy.

• WAGP is commercially viable and will service a population of 250 million.
  

• Energy self sufficiency for the whole region for nearly three decades.
  
• 80.000 jobs creation is forecasted.
  
• Generation of progressive and sustained industrialization.
  
• Suppression of gas emission (100 million tons per year).
  
• Preservation of thousands of hectares of forests in the region.

WAGP was initially set-up four years ago through an agreement signed by the governments of Benin, Ghana, Nigeria and Togo. A steering committee of ministers of mines and energy followed up the progress of the undertaking and rallied the interest of public and private sectors companies

1. Société Béninoise des Gaz S.A.
   

2. Ghana National Petroleum Corporation.
   
3. Chevron Nigeria Limited.
   
4. Nigeria Gas Company.
   
5. Shell Petroleum development Company of Nigeria.
   
6. Société Togolaise des Gaz S.A.

Chevron, in partnership with the governments of the countries involved, will step-up phase two of the project:

• Licensing arrangements.
  

• Engineering design and planning.
  
• Environmental impacts studies.

This project is very important for energy supply to the west African region.

Profits are forecasted to be rolling out as soon as the pipeline is operational and delivering gas to power-stations and industries in the region.

For further information please contact

Mr. Chris P. Miller from Chevron Overseas Petroleum Incorporated is WAGP Project Manager:
Chevron Overseas Petroleum Co.,
6001 Bollinger Canyon Road, San Ramon,
CA 94583
Tel: +(1) 925-842-1000.

Mr. Joe O. Anyigho is one of the authors of the paper above mentioned; he is Executive Director of Chevron Nigeria Limited.

Figures outlined here are from a study by Dames and Moore Group under the supervision of vice-president: Albert H. Spiers:
Dames and Moore Group
911 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 700
Los Angeles, CA 90017
Phone: +(1) 213 996-2200
Fax: +(1) 213 628-0015

You may visit following Chevron's link for research on the current state of the project.

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