Morocco's plan to secure Nigerian gas by enlisting Spain to fight Algeria.

The global energy crisis has changed the international political order. Russian aggression in Ukraine has obliged European countries dependent on the Kremlin's oil and gas to diversify their supplies and disengage energetically from Russia.

Project H2med

One such country is Germany, which now gets its energy from the southern Mediterranean thanks to the H2med project, which will bring green hydrogen to German territory from the Iberian Peninsula.

Project SoutH2

The SoutH2 project will bring natural gas and green hydrogen from Algeria to Germany via Italy.

In this context, a new energy confrontation between Morocco and Algeria is emerging.

Nigeria-Morocco Gas' Projects's Nigeria Power Company (NNPCL) and Morocco's Energy Company (ONHYM), includes a $25 billion undersea gas pipeline that will connect various African countries. Finally, the subsea pipeline will go to Spain from where the gas will be distributed across Europe.

The Trans-Sahara Gas Pipeline Project

The Trans-Sahara gas pipeline project has an expected length of 4.128 kilometers and a capacity of 30 billion cubic meters per year.

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The bottom line is that instability in Niger promotes the Nigeria-Morocco pipeline and favors Spain's energy interests, to the detriment of the Trans-Sahara pipeline and Algeria's interests.