In September, the Nigerian president attended the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in Beijing and carried out a state visit to China, and since then more than 200 Chinese companies have expressed interest in investing in Nigeria. It followed the signing of the Nigeria-China relationship agreement last year, with 74 of those companies specifically focused on the oil and gas industry.
Last year, Nigeria’s beleaguered energy sector witnessed a very significant event after the Dangote Oil Refinery began producing gasoline and selling it domestically to NNPC, marking the first time in decades Africa’s largest oil producer is refining its own crude. The state-of-the-art $20.5 billion refinery was launched in January 2024, but only began producing gasoline in September. The giant refinery has a capacity to process 650,000 barrels of crude per day, considerably bigger than any refinery in Europe and more than enough for Nigeria’s needs. To sweeten the deal further, the facility has been buying crude and selling refined fuels in Nigeria in the local currency, saving the country’s much-needed foreign exchange, especially the U.S. dollar.
The Nigerian government aims to boost the country’s oil production by 1 million barrels per day (bpd) by December 2026, from the current 1.75 million bpd, the head of the upstream regulator of Africa’s top crude producer said.
Energy stakeholders from Ghana and Nigeria convened at the Kempinski Hotel in Accra for a high-level engagement meeting last Friday.
This was initiated at the request of Nigeria’s Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ekperipe Ekpo.
Africa’s biggest crude producer Nigeria has emerged from a years-long output slump due to improved security, creating a quandary for the government.
Portugal will increase purchases of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the United States and Nigeria, as it aims to end imports of Russian gas, Environment Minister Maria da Graca Carvalho said on Tuesday. According to data from electricity and gas grids operator REN, Portugal imported 49,141 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of natural gas in 2024, of which around 96% was LNG.
The rise in crude oil prices is crucial for achieving President Bola Tinubu’s N47.9 trillion 2025 budget. The federal government aims to raise N19.60 trillion, or 56% of its revenues, from the oil sector and N15.22 trillion, or 43% of total revenues, from non-oil sources. This indicates that Nigeria has to earn more money from oil.
Seplat Energy Plc has unveiled plans to increase its crude oil production by 140% to 120,000 barrels per day. The company’s Chief Financial Officer, Eleanor Adaralegbe, revealed in an interview with the Financial Times that they would increase output from the present 50,000 bpd to 120,000 bpd in H1 2025.
TechnipFMC has been awarded a substantial(1) contract by Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company Limited to supply Subsea 2.0® production systems for the Bonga North development in Nigeria
Nigeria approved a $1.3 billion deal that would see a group of local companies buy Shell Plc’s onshore assets in Africa’s biggest crude producer.