The incessant attacks on oil facilities and the attendant shortfall in oil revenue reached a boiling point last week with key operators in the oil and finance sectors warning that unless oil criminals and their collaborators are smoked out, Nigeria may be heading towards a major economic disaster, reportsWithin a spate of two weeks, the urgency of the need to stop the growing sabotage to the nation’s oil production trended in the media as the major discussion among leading operators in the...
Production data is updated monthly, averaging 1,929,000 barrels per day from January 2002 to January 2022. The data reached an all-time high of 2,496,000 barrels per day in November 2005 and a record low of 1,296,000 barrels per day in August 2021. While speaking on the decision of the MPC after its 284th meeting last week, Emefiele, disclosed that the country is unable to meet its production quota due to unwarranted oil theft in the sector.
The company stated, “All our current efforts to sustain and increase crude production are being aggressively undermined, even wiped out by the activities of economic saboteurs whose audacity continues to be growing by the day.”Earlier, founding MD/CEO of Seplat Energy and Executive Chairman AA Holdings, Austin Avuru had warned that Nigeria’s oil production had reached an emergency critical status.
“The stark reality today is that the IOCs are leaving, their decision is outside our control as a nation, in fact, over the last 12 years, Shell and Chevron have divested from a total of 21 blocks. It is now public knowledge that shell and ExxonMobil are now exiting the onshore/shallow water altogether.
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