Côte d’Ivoire: Products pipeline


President Alassane Ouattara inaugurated the Abidjan-Yamoussoukro products pipeline on 29 July. Work on the 258km pipeline started in 2007 and the project has cost CFAF140bn ($283m). Speaking at the ceremony, oil and energy minister Adama Toungara said the pipeline had a transport capacity of 4m litres, the equivalent of 130 tanker trucks. Describing it as “a tool for regional integration”, he said the pipeline would improve security of supply for markets in the interior of the country, and neighbouring Mali and Burkina Faso.