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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.
Oloibiri Oilfield was discovered on Sunday 15 January 1956 by Shell Darcy. [10] It was the first commercial oil discovery in Nigeria; this discovery ended 50 years of unsuccessful oil exploration in the country by various international oil companies and launched Nigeria into the limelight of the Petro-State.
Shell Nigeria announced 40,000 barrels of the crude oil spill in Nigeria in December 2011. [31] Bonga Field produces around 200,000 barrels a day. The spill was among the worst off the coast of Nigeria in 10 years. [32] 280,000 barrels of oil were estimated spilled in 2008 in two leaks in the Bodo region in the Ogoni district in 2008. [33]
In 1956, oil fields were discovered in Nigeria. Since then, vandalism, oil theft and illegal, unprofessional refining by local residents have caused the contamination of the Niger Delta with crude and heavy oil, particularly around disused exploratory boreholes. [13] [14] [15] Nigeria became independent in 1960.
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.
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 town of Oloibiri is the 'birthplace' of oil in Nigeria. [1]Since 1946 when then Shell-BP began test oil drilling at Oloibiri and subsequently began large scale operations in 1948 which reached its peak in 1968 minor oil spill pollution occurred repeatedly and even a few larger oil spills at the facility that polluted the direct area heavily that have caused lasting environmental issues in ...
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. ...