Ghana has said it is ready to pay its share of the construction costs of project, which amounts to around $12.24 million. President Mills was in a meeting with a delegation from WAGP led by its chief executive officer, Jack Derrickson.

The 680-km pipeline will run from Nigeria, where the natural gas is sourced from the Niger Delta, across Benin and Togo to Ghana. Benin and Togo will each take relatively small amounts of the gas, with the bulk going to the Ghanaian industrial centres of Tema and Takoradi. The initial designed throughput of 30m cuft/d is expected to help address recent power shortages in Ghana, which have forced some companies to suspend operations.

Since construction began in 2005, the project has suffered repeated delays due to political instability in the Niger Delta, damage to the pipeline and, most recently, high levels of moisture in the gas.

Many observers also attribute recent delays to political sensitivities surrounding the project, as many Nigerians have objected to the export of gas to its neighbours when less than 40% of Nigerians have access to the country's somewhat-unreliable electricity supply.