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<\/a><\/p>\nThe meeting, hosted by Benin Minister of Energy, Water and Mines, Dona Jean-Claude Houssou, was to follow up on action points from the previous meeting held in Accra in 2016,\u00a0and to provide feedback on WAGP\u2019s operational and financial issues, as well as tariff issues, and to finalize the Western Interconnection Agreement. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nIt brought together senior government officials from Ghana, Nigeria and Togo, as well as key stakeholders such as West African Gas Pipeline Authority (WAGPA), and the West African Pipeline Company Limited (WAPCo). \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nRepresentative of the Nigerian Minister of State in charge of Petroleum Resources, Engr. Saidu A. Mohammed, affirmed Nigeria\u2019s commitment to the project. He noted that the Nigerian Government is working around the clock to ramp-up gas supply from around the 40 MMS CFD to 70 MMS CFD before close of 2017. <\/span><\/p>\nAccording to him, the \u201cNigerian government is making headway in resolving militancy activities that vandalize onshore gas pipeline\u201d which leads to cuts in gas supply to other member states. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nThe COM re-affirmed its commitment to the project, and tasked WAPCo to look into expanding its business model. Other dignitaries present were representatives from ECOWAS, Ghana\u2019s Ministry of Energy, N-Gas, WAGPA and WAPCo.<\/span><\/p>\n–<\/p>\n
By: Obrempong Yaw Ampofo\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Minister of Energy, Hon. Boakye Agyarko, on Friday, May 12, 2017, told colleague energy ministers in West African countries connected to the West African Gas Pipeline Project, that operational and financial issues affecting the West African Gas Pipeline Project must be addressed to ensure that the project survives. Addressing the Committee of Ministers (COM) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[3,7111],"class_list":["post-319078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-ghana-news","tag-wapco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=319078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=319078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=319078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=319078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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