Category: West Africa

Oil flows from the Forcados terminal in Nigeria has been restarted following a months-long pause. Shell, the operator of the terminal, halted exports in mid-July due to a leak in Continue Reading

Hope for the addition of 500,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil to Nigeria’s daily output by the end of November to earn more revenue to finance the 2023 Continue Reading

Flooding across Nigeria has hobbled gas production and decimated thousands of square kilometers of farmland, the country’s government said Wednesday, aggravating fuel and food shortages across Africa’s most populous nation Continue Reading

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation says that weeks of an intense crackdown on oil thieves have significantly reduced the scale of oil theft in the oil-rich Niger Delta and that Continue Reading

European countries and gas traders are reeling from the latest LNG supply shock – a force majeure from Nigeria LNG – that threatens nearly 4% of global supply and further Continue Reading

A ship loads liquefied natural gas from the Nigerian LNG plant on Bonny Island, Nigeria. Nigeria LNG Ltd. declared force majeure on shipments from its Bonny Island liquefied natural gas Continue Reading

More than 600 people have died and 1.3mn have been displaced from their homes in flooding that has hit 33 of Nigeria’s 36 states and the capital Abuja, government officials Continue Reading

The latest discovery comes less than one week after at least 58 illegal oil pipelines were discovered by Tompolo in Delta and Bayelsa States where crude oil was being stolen. Continue Reading

In the past few months, the Federal Government, which had lived in denial of the actual reason for the razor-sharp increase in oil bunkering, popularly known as kpofire, in the Continue Reading

After months of under-production and heavy dip in foreign exchange earnings from oil export due to crude theft and vandalism, Nigeria’s oil production is set to rise again as Shell Continue Reading

GROUP General Manager, GGM, National Petroleum Investment Management Services, NAPIMS, Bala Wunti, has said there is close collaboration among oil bunkerers, security officials, communities, and others in breaching the nation’s Continue Reading

Nigeria, Morocco, and their partners expect to make a final investment decision next year on what would be the world’s longest offshore gas pipeline from Nigeria to Morocco and onto Continue Reading

In a shocking revelation, the Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC), Mallam Mele Kyari, has narrated how an illegal oil pipeline connecting directly to Continue Reading

The Forcados terminal is operated by Shell. A spokesperson for the company could not be reached as the known phone line did not connect. The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Continue Reading

The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) has said that the current petrol scarcity in Abuja and other states in the North is caused by flooding in Lokoja, Continue Reading

 Officials in Nigeria discovered an illegal connection line from one of its major oil export terminals into the sea that had been operating undetected for nine years, the head of Continue Reading

Nigeria has failed to capitalize on an oil price boom that has helped cushion other exporters from the impact of inflation, with millions more Nigerians now facing poverty. Data from Continue Reading

Nigeria’s national electricity grid collapsed on Monday leaving many parts of the country without power, electricity distribution companies said. The grid has collapsed at least four times this year, which Continue Reading

The cost of Nigeria’s fuel subsidies rose to 525.714 billion naira ($1.22 billion) in August, bringing the total spent this year to 2.568 trillion naira, according to figures submitted to Continue Reading

Nigeria’s oil output was at the lowest since 1990 as its crude oil production fell below 1 million barrels per day (bpd) in August 2022. And data from the Organisation Continue Reading

In view of the massive vandalism and rising cases of oil theft in Nigeria’s oil producing region, the Director of Operations, PPC Limited, Dr. Patrick Ede, has advised the federal Continue Reading

Senate President Ahmad Lawan has warned that unless prompt action is taken, crude oil theft may stagnate the economy and drive it into a coma. Lawan said this Tuesday in Continue Reading

Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) is planning to resume the testing of its main trunkline, the Trans Niger Pipeline (TNP). Vanguard gathered that TNP takes crude from Continue Reading

Nigeria has continued to waste the rare opportunity presented by the global rise in oil prices to grow its economy like other oil-producing countries, London-based The Economist has stated. While Continue Reading

Oil rigs Abuja, Nigeria — Nigeria has lost its position as Africa’s top oil producer to Angola, industry insiders say, and could soon become third after Libya. Oil analysts say Continue Reading

Nigeria’s oil sector challenges appear to be worsening, with production hitting a record low of 972,394 barrels per day in August, according to data obtained from the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Continue Reading

Oil theft Between January and July, Nigeria, Africa’s biggest oil producer, lost an average of 437,000 barrels of oil a day to criminals. Last week, the Group Managing Director of Continue Reading

Oil theft We call on the Buhari administration to create as much of a legacy as is still possible, in the next couple of decisive months in which it remains Continue Reading

Oil and oil product theft has become an existential threat to Nigeria. NNPC Group CEO Kyari: 95% of crude oil output at Bonny hub is lost to theft. Stolen crude Continue Reading

A Hyprep remediation site in Eleme, near Port Harcourt, in 2019. Mismanagement, waste and lack of transparency are making the cleanup in the Niger Delta’s Ogoniland anything but exemplary, UN Continue Reading

Oil refinery The agreement will help Nigeria side-step the likely crude oil glut that will follow as more countries move away to cleaner energy. The Nigerian government says it has Continue Reading

Nigeria released some funds owed to international air carriers to try and avert a crisis in the aviation sector amid warnings of flight suspensions from operators including Dubai’s Emirates Airline. Continue Reading

 Four major oil companies have agreed to end U.S. lawsuits that together sought to enforce multi-billion dollar arbitration awards against Nigeria’s state-owned oil company, after reaching new deepwater oil production Continue Reading

The Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Mallam Mele Kyari, yesterday poured cold water on calls for the legalisation of artisanal illegal refineries in Continue Reading

Yeyerisa Abimbola has dedicated most of her 58 years on Earth to the Osun, a waterway in deeply religious Nigeria named for the river goddess of fertility. As the deity’s Continue Reading

One of Nigeria’s leading energy giants, Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) has disclosed that the Shell Group would not go ahead with the divestment of its interest Continue Reading

Shell slashed its refinery output at its Shell Energy and Chemicals Park Rheinland fuel-making facility as low Rhine River levels halted the flow of goods, Shell said on Thursday. “Due Continue Reading

Emirates Airlines plans to suspend all flights to and from Nigeria because of an inability to repatriate funds out of the country, the carrier said on Thursday. The Dubai-based airline Continue Reading

Nigeria was hit by a nationwide electricity blackout on Wednesday after workers at the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) shut the national grid as they began an indefinite strike over Continue Reading

Again, Nigeria has hit a new oil production loss record as a result of disruptions to its crude assets due to maintenance challenges, community issues and prolonged force majeure. Latest Continue Reading

Nigerian police said on Tuesday two oil pipelines that feed the Brass export terminal, one of Nigeria’s export streams operated by Italian group Eni (ENI.MI) , were recently blown up Continue Reading

 Military recovers 3.75 mil barrels of stolen crude Nigeria losing close to 400,000 b/d oil output to theft: NNPC Bonny Light, Forcados exports remain disrupted Nigerian security agencies have scaled Continue Reading

Highlights Military recovers 3.75 mil barrels of stolen crude Nigeria losing close to 400,000 b/d oil output to theft: NNPC Bonny Light, Forcados exports remain disrupted Nigerian security agencies have Continue Reading

President Muhammadu Buhari A spokesperson says the president decided the position of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) is to be supported, and the earlier confusion was because “various Continue Reading

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has granted consent to the acquisition of Exxon Mobil’s Nigerian unit by Seplat Energy (SEPLAT.LG) , in a $1.28 billion deal announced in February. Buhari, who Continue Reading

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr Timipre Sylva, has said that the country loses 400,000 barrels of crude daily via oil theft. Sylva said this on Monday when Continue Reading

*Deficit exceeds 700,000bpd despite assurances of increased drilling The expectation that Nigeria’s current dollar crunch could subside soon has again been dashed as the country’s crude oil production remained below Continue Reading

Highlights July production falls 89,256 b/d to 1.31 million b/d Bonny Light hits lowest level in decades, force majeure still in effect Political risks could deteriorate ahead of 2023 elections Continue Reading