Thursday, January 16, 2025 - Nigeria’s crude oil revenue rose to about N50.88 trillion in 2024, according to new data obtained from the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission.
The data
showed that Nigeria produced a total of 408,680,457 barrels of crude oil in
2024.
With
condensate included, total oil production for 2024 was 566.79 million barrels,
NUPRC data added.
According
to Statista Research Department, a global statistical firm, in it's January 9,
2025 report, the average price of crude in 2024 was $80.53 per barrel.
If the
total crude oil produced in Nigeria in 2024, which is 408,680,457 million
barrels, is added to the average price of the product, this amounts to N50.88
trillion or $32.91 billion, at the rate of N1,546 to a dollar.
Recall
that Nigeria had planned to produce 649.7 million barrels of oil through an
average daily output of 1.78 million barrels in its 2024 budget which could
result in a $50.68 billion with oil prices at $78 and the exchange
rate at N750 to a dollar benchmark for 2024.
The data
showed that the lowest average daily crude production in Nigeria was 1.23 mbpd,
while the highest was in November, when it rose to 1.48 mbpd.
Nigeria
ended the year with crude production in December at 1.484 mbpd, excluding
condensate, which stood at an average of 182,975 bpd.
“The
average crude oil production was 98.97 percent of the OPEC quota (1.5 mbpd),”
NUPRC stated in its latest crude production data.
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