Despite the Niger coup and financial difficulties, challenges are growing for Nigeria's $13 billion Trans-Saharan gas pipeline

The Trans-Saharan gas pipeline, one of Nigeria's most ambitious infrastructure projects, is in danger due to the recent coup in Niger and funding issues on a crucial domestic pipeline.A recent report by S&P Global Commodity Insights revealed this. Since 2002, work has been ongoing on the 4,128-kilometer ($13 billion) Trans-Saharan gas pipeline project, which runs from Warri in southern Nigeria via Niger to Algeria's Hassi R'Mel gas center. It is made to move 30 billion cubic meters (Bcm) of gas per day and acts as Nigeria's entry point to the European gas market. The military coup in Niger in July, which spurred the Nigeria-led regional body ECOWAS to consider sending soldiers, raises the chance that the entire strategy could fall apart.