Regulations

This section reviews the specifications of gasoline, ethanol and ethanol blends in West Africa.

All the countries of West Africa, except Mauritania, form the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), a 15-member regional group with a mandate for promoting economic integration in certain fields of activity of the constituting countries, including industry, energy and natural resources. Even though energy is covered by ECOWAS’s common actions, fuel quality has been left to the discretion of individual member states.

Several regional initiatives have been taken to improve fuel quality; however, none of them have resulted in actual tangible change in the market. Following the la