Economic Community of West African States

<p>The Trans Sahara Gas Pipeline (TSGP) is a main gas transmission pipeline from Calabar in Nigeria to Beni Saf in Algeria. The dimension is 48" with a design pressure of 100 barg, which gives an overall transport capacity of 20 bcm/year (60mcm/day). The overall length of the pipeline is ca 4400 km, of which 1037 km in Nigeria, 841 km in Niger, 2303 km in Algeria and 220km Subsea from Algeria to Spain.  </p>

<p>The pipeline route follows the route of the Trans-Nigerian pipeline from Calabar to Kano in Nigeria. It is expected that the pipeline will be connected to the Nigerian gas transmission system. In Niger, it is expected that there will be off-take points in the south for power production plants and in the north close to the mines for power production and potentially for direct use in the vehicles and machines used in the mining activities, where gas could replace oil. In Algeria, the pipeline follows the Trans-Saharan highway to Hassi R´Mel, where the pipeline will be connected to the northern part of the integrated gas transmission system. From Hassi R´Mel, the pipeline will follow a number of existing pipelines to Beni Saf. The middle part of the Algerian section will run in the same horizontal level as pipelines from In Salah and In Armenas. More than half of the pipeline section is hence to be constructed in well-known terrain and conditions in respectively Nigeria and Algeria. Only the middle section, from Kano in Nigeria to the south of Algeria, via Niger, is to be considered as new terrain for large diameter pipeline construction. Finally a 220km subsea pipeline would be constructed from Beni saf in Algeria to Spain in order to supply gas to the European market.</p>

<p>S&atilde;o Tom&eacute; and Pr&iacute;ncipe has 12 automatic hydrometric stations, which require in-depth maintenance for their effective operation. Taking into account the climate change that has devastated the country, there is a need to adapt and mitigate the impacts that could cause flood and river overflow, and be resilient, through operationalization of hydrometric station for issuing alerts and management of watersheds.</p>

<p>Development of joint standards for modern corridor road design (with PPP) (including Trade and Transport Facilitation) on Abidjan-Oua</p>

Development of joint standards for modern road corridor design (with PPP) (including Trade and Transport Facilitation) on Abidjan-Lag

<p>This project covers the Senegal portion of the Dakar-Ndjamena-Djibouti Road/ Railway project. This is a multimodal transboundary transport corridor including Senegal, Mali, Burkina-Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia and Djibouti. It is a combination of the Trans-African Highway 5 (Dakar to N’djamena) and 6 (N’djamena to Djibouti), a combined distance covered of 8,715 km. </p>

<p>However over time, the railway transport route between Dakar and Bamako has become degraded and and created hindrances in the international services for passenger transportation. In order to improve the competitiveness of the route, the two states financed a study in order to define the best way to finance or to participate in the funding of the Dakar- Bamako railway infrastructure upgrade.</p>

<p>The project will have the following components:</p>

<ul>
<li>Rehabilitation of the platform and reconstruction of the engineering works to 22.5 tons / axle;</li>
<li>Railway rehabilitation (main roads and service roads)</li>
<li>Implementation of a train cantonment system and a telecommunications system in line with UIC railway standards;</li>
<li>Acquisition of rolling stock and railway equipment;</li>
<li>Development and renovation of station facilities.</li>
</ul>

<p>The Dakar-Bamako Rail Project has been prioritised by the Government of Senegal as the first of three phases of the Project. It entails the rehabilitation of the existing railway network between Dakar and Bamako (1,228 km), with a total project cost of US$ 2.2 billion.</p>

This project forms part of the  priority projects  identified in the ECOWAS Master Plan for the Generation and Transmission of Electrical Energy. The project involves the construction of approximately 350 km of 330 kV transmission line from Tema Swithching Station in Ghana (Volta) over a distance of 140 km to the Ghana /Togo Border (Lome "C") and 98 km of 330 kV line from Lome "C" to the Togo/Benin Border and from there an 110 km 330 kV line to the Sakete Substation in Benin.  It also comprises the extension of the 330 kV switching substation in Tema, Ghana, construction of 330/161/20 kV substation in Lome "C", Togo and the extension of the 330 kV substation at Sakete in Benin.

This project forms part of the  priority projects  identified in the ECOWAS Master Plan for the Generation and Transmission of Electrical Energy and shall interconnect  Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea to the nine already interconnected countries.