• Dangote Industries, GCL signed $4.2 billion, 25-year gas supply agreement for Ethiopia fertilizer megaproject.
• Gas to supply 3 million tonnes/year urea plant valued at $2.5 billion, operational target 2029.
• Project structured 60:40 between Dangote Group and Ethiopian Investment Holdings (EIH).
• Gas sourced from Calub field, transported via 108-km pipeline to Gode, Somali Region.
• Plant to fully replace Ethiopia’s current urea imports and supply regional export markets.
• GCL has operated in Ethiopia for over 20 years across oil, gas, and LNG infrastructure projects.
• Project integrates upstream gas, midstream pipeline, downstream fertilizer in single value chain.

why it matters?

A $4.2B, 3-million-tonne project can eliminate Ethiopia’s fertilizer imports, reduce FX demand, and build a domestic energy-to-fertilizer industrial chain by 2029.