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Nigeria's crude oil production decreased to 1.25 million barrels per day in May 2024, down from 1.28 million barrels per day in April 2024. [57] This represents a decline of 30,000 barrels per day and is the second-lowest production level in 2024. Despite this, Nigeria remains the largest crude oil producer in Africa.
Under this definition (crude and condensate), total world oil production in 2023 averaged 81,804,000 barrels per day. Approximately 72% of world oil production came from the top ten countries, and an overlapping 35% came from the twelve OPEC members.
Its production in 2022 averaged 1.2 million barrels of oil per day (bopd), [6] and 300 barrels per day (bpd) of condensate, making it the biggest oil producer on the continent. Nigeria has oil reserves of about 37 billion barrels and gas reserves of about 206 Tcf, ranking 10th and 8th in the world, respectively, and giving it plenty of room to ...
Shell Nigeria: Partners: Royal Dutch Shell ExxonMobil Total S.A. Eni: Field history; Discovery: 1996: Start of production: November 2005: Abandonment: 2022 (Estimated) Production; Current production of oil: 202,000 barrels per day (~1.01 × 10 ^ 7 t/a) Year of current production of oil: 2006: Current production of gas: 144 × 10 ^ 6 cu ft/d (4. ...
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 ...
The Dangote Refinery is an oil refinery owned by Dangote Group that was inaugurated on 22 May 2023 [1] in Lekki, Nigeria.When fully operational, it is expected to have the capacity to process about 650,000 barrels of crude oil per day, making it the largest single-train refinery in the world.
The field started oil production between late 1957 and early 1958 and the first oil production from the field came at the rate of 4,928 barrels per day (783.5 m 3 /d). [citation needed] The field produced at an average rate of 5,100 barrels (810 m 3) of oil per day for the first year. The production increased thereafter as more wells were ...
Nigeria: Offshore/onshore: Offshore: Operators: Star Deep Water: Partners: Chevron, Famfa Oil, Petrobras, Statoil, NNPC: Field history; Discovery: 1998: Start of production: 2008: Production; Current production of oil: 140,000 barrels per day (~7.0 × 10 ^ 6 t/a) Peak of production (oil) 250,000 barrels per day (~1.2 × 10 ^ 7 t/a) Estimated ...