Geoff D. Porter
Morocco likes big. Big is good. In 1987, cooks in Agadir made the world’s biggest couscous. In 1993, it built the world’s biggest minaret and the world’s biggest concentrated solar power plant in 2016. The world’s biggest soccer stadium is currently under construction in Casablanca. And Morocco wants to build the world’s longest submarine natural gas pipeline.
The subsea Africa Atlantic Gas Pipeline (AAGP) would cross 5700km of seabed traversing 11 countries to connect Nigeria to Morocco. According to Morocco’s state-owned energy company, ONHYM, the pipeline would have a nameplate capacity 30 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas per year. ONYHM claims the pipeline’s gas would provide electricity to West Africa, thereby fostering regional economic development and regional stability. In addition, it would export up to 18bcm/year from Morocco to Europe, transforming Morocco into an energy hub for Europe.
But the AAGP would be a big and vain white elephant.
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