Nigeria rakes in $434m crude, gas sales in January, says NNPC

… 1.20 bn litres of PMS at 38.68mn litres per day supplied

… as pipeline vandalism rises

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) says the country recorded crude oil and gas export sale of $434.85 million in January, 2020.

It represents an increase of 94.3 per cent against the December 2019 figures.

January’s crude oil export sales contributed $336.65 million (77.42 per cent) of the dollar transactions for the period compared to the $136.36 million sales in the previous month.

Export gas sales in January amounted to $98.20million while 2019 to January 2020 crude oil and gas transactions valued at $5.18billion was exported, according to NNPC’s Monthly Financial and Operations Report released on Wednesday in Abuja as contained in statement by the corporation’s Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Dr. Kennie Obateru.

Persecondnews recalls that the January 2020 edition of the monthly report of the corporation is the 54th edition in the series.

On pipeline vandalism, NNPC said it recorded a phenomenal spike of 50 percentage increase in January, saying during the period 60 pipeline points were vandalized compared to the 40 incidents recorded in December 2019.

“Atlas Cove-Mosimi and Mosimi-Ibadan axis pipelines accounted for 50 per cent and 17 per cent of the breaks respectively, while all other routes accounted for the remaining 33 per cent, according to the report.’’

It, however, said the NNPC in collaboration with the local communities and other stakeholders were working to curtail the menace.

On petrol supply during the period, the report said Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) of about 1.20 billion litres of the white product translating to 38.68mn liters/day were supplied across the country.

“The corporation has continued to diligently monitor the daily stock of fuel to achieve smooth distribution of petroleum products and zero-fuel queues across the nation,’’ the report stated.

In the gas sector, out of the 253.09billion cubic feet (BCF) of gas supplied in January 2020, a total of 151.16BCF of gas was commercialized, consisting of 36.20BCF and 114.96BCF for the domestic and export market, respectively.

This translates to 1,167.80million standard cubic Feet (mmscfd) of gas supply to the domestic market, with 3,708.23mmscfd of gas supplied to the export market during the month.

The report stated that 59.89 per cent of the average daily gas produced was commercialized, while the balance of 40.11 per cent was re-injected, used as Upstream fuel gas or flared.

Gas flare rate was 7.90 per cent for the month under review i.e. 643.59mmscfd, compared with average gas-flare rate of 8.46 per cent i.e. 671.40mmscfd, for the period January 2019 to January 2020.

Out of the 1,167.80mmscfd of gas supplied to the domestic market in January 2020, about 639.70mmscfd of gas, representing 54.78 per cent, was supplied to gas-fired power plants, while the balance of 528.10mmscfd or 45.22 per cent was supplied to other industries.

The report said 640mmscfd of gas delivered to gas fired-power plants in January 2020 generated an average power of about 2,683 MW, compared with December 2019 where an average of 596mmscfd was supplied to generate 2,498 MW.

From January 2019 to January 2020, an average of 1,203.93mmscfd of gas was supplied to the domestic market, comprising an average of 693.73mmscfd or (57.62 per cent) as gas supply to the power plants and 510.20mmscfd or (42.38 per cent) as gas supply to industries, it said.