The government of Ethiopia has approved an agreement that was signed between the governments of Ethiopia and Djibouti for a cross-border gas pipeline project.
Ethiopia had made a discovery of up to seven to eight billion TFC of natural gas in Somali by the Chinese firm Poly-GCL Petroleum Group (Poly-GCL).
The agreement which was signed early in 2019 with Djibouti will see construction of a 767 km pipeline that will transport natural gas from Ogaden area to an export terminal in the Red Sea nation of Djibouti.
Poly-GCL has been tasked with installation of a pipeline to transport the gas from fields in Ethiopia upto ports in neighboring Djibouti in a period of two years. Around 700 km of the natural gas pipeline will be located in Ethiopia, while the rest of the natural gas pipeline will be located in Djibouti.