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  2. List of countries by oil production - Wikipedia

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    Top 5 oil-producing countries 1980–2022 World oil production This is a list of countries by oil production (i.e., petroleum production), as compiled from the U.S. Energy Information Administration database for calendar year 2023, tabulating all countries on a comparable best-estimate basis.

  3. Petroleum industry in Nigeria - Wikipedia

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    In 2010, Nigeria provided about 10% of the United States' oil imports and ranked as the fifth-largest source for oil imports in the U.S. However, Nigeria ceased exports to the U.S. in July 2014 due to increasing competition from U.S. domestic oil production, itself the result of the massive growth of the oil shale industry. [19]

  4. Energy in Nigeria - Wikipedia

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    Oil and gas in Nigeria. The first oil well in Nigeria was drilled in 1958 in Oloibiri [12] which is present day Bayelsa State. This acted as a milestone for the production of oil and gas in Nigeria and the emergence of the country as a top oil & gas producer globally. In 2022, Nigeria was still Africa's biggest oil producer and one of the ...

  5. Akwa Ibom State - Wikipedia

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    Akwa Ibom State's economy is based on the production of crude oil and natural gas. It produces the most oil of any state in the country. [ 12 ] It includes the following oil- producing Local Government Areas: Ibeno , Mbo , and Eastern Obolo .

  6. Oil reserves in Nigeria - Wikipedia

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    Although Libya has more reserves, there were 37.2 billion barrels (5.91 × 10 ^ 9 m 3) of proven oil reserves in Nigeria as of 2011, ranking the country as the largest oil producer in Africa and the 11th largest in the world, averaging 2.28 million barrels per day (362 × 10 ^ 3 m 3 /d) in 2006. At current rates this would be 45 years of supply ...

  7. Uzere - Wikipedia

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    Uzere formerly known as "Uzei" is located in the Isoko South Local Government Area (LGA) of Delta State of Nigeria. It has become one of the largest petroleum oil producing communities in Nigeria. [1] Oil exploration started in Uzere in 1957.

  8. Agbami Field - Wikipedia

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    Agbami Field is an oil field in Nigeria. Discovered in late 1998, it was the second major deepwater oil field discovered off the Niger Delta , the first being Bonga Field by Shell. The field is located in nearly 1,500 meters (4,900 ft) of water off the central Niger Delta.

  9. Nigeria - Wikipedia

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    The most productive region of the nation is the coastal Niger Delta Basin in the Niger Delta or "south-south" region which encompasses 78 of the 159 oil fields. Most of Nigeria's oil fields are small and scattered, and as of 1990, these small fields accounted for 62.1% of all Nigerian production.