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Nigeria’s Crude Oil Reserves Rise to 37bbls


The nation’s crude oil reserves in Niger Delta that droped to 28.2 billion barrels (bbls) at the height of militant attacks on oil infrastructures has risen back to 37 billion barrels and also is the improved 192 trillion cubic feet of gas (tcf) from the previous 186 tcf figures.

The NNPC’s Group General Manager Public Affairs, Mr. Ndu Ughamadu, a statement in Abuja quoted the Group Managing Director of the corporation, Dr. Maikanti Baru, in his end of the year message to the corporation’s workers.

Baru, however, did not disclose details of the contracts or how much money the corporation saved from the renegotiations, he only said the NNPC would continue to find sustainable solutions to the challenges of militancy which affects oil and gas production in the Niger Delta.

According to Prior, Nigeria’s crude oil reserves was depleting and subsequently dropped to 28.2bbls, which development also prompted the President of the Nigerian Association of Petroleum Explorationists (NAPE), Nosa Omorodion, to in October 2016, raise the alarm.

Omorodion decried the lack of exploration in the country’s oil and gas sector, and requested the federal government to begin seismic work in the frontier sedimentary basins, which include Bida Dahomey, Anambra, Gongola, and Sokoto to improve Nigeria’s hydrocarbon reserves.

Dr. Baru said the reserves have again risen to 37bbls, adding that the NNPC has created security management platforms that would enable it identify and evaluate risks, develop and superintend implementation of investigations, and aggregate and deploy necessary resources to guarantee peaceful business environment in the Niger Delta region.

He stated that the corporation was committed to implementing a robust security and stakeholders’ strategy that would sustain peace in the industry’s operational bases, expresses happiness with NNPC’s completion of negotiations with its Joint Venture (JV) partners on cash call funding challenges and payment of outstanding arrears.

He said this was achieved by developing a clear payment plan as well as the pursuit of an alternative funding strategy, adding that arrears of up to December, 2015 have been fully reconciled and repayments plan also agreed upon.

He also said the decisive objective of the recently signed off agreements between NNPC and its JV partners was to enable NNPC transit into an Incorporated Joint Venture (IJV) business model for all the current JVs.

He said the NNPC had been able to stabilise the supply and distribution of petroleum products in the country with support from Nigerians and its staff, and commenced the implementation of a 12-key business focus areas to enhance its business performance.

“Today, motorists drive in and out of filling stations with ease. This would not have been achieved without the collective efforts of all of us,” Baru said.

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