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Nigeria's Oil, Gas Earnings Slumped To $17.05bn In 2016, Lowest In 10 Years


Yearly normal cost of raw petroleum per barrel was $43.73 in 2016 as against $52.5 in 2015. Add up to oil creation in 2016 was 659 million barrels as against 776 million barrels delivered in 2015,
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The aggregate money related streams from Nigeria's oil and gas division drooped to $17.05 billion of every 2016, speaking to a 31 percent decay when contrasted with $24.79 billion out of 2015, and a 75 percent dive on the area's pinnacle income of $68.44 billion produced in 2011.

The figures are contained in the most recent report of the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) discharged on Friday in Abuja.

Investigation of the report demonstrated that the $17.05 billion earned in 2016 is the most minimal in ten years and the fifth least in the 18 years secured by NEITI's review reports up until now (1999 to 2016).

As indicated by the report titled 'NEITI 2016 Oil and Gas Industry Audit Report', the dive in income in 2016 came about because of the one-two punch of low oil costs in the worldwide market and diminished oil generation in Nigeria, which thus was caused by interruption and vandalism of oil resources and spike in rough robbery, among others.

Yearly normal cost of unrefined petroleum per barrel was $43.73 in 2016 as against $52.5 in 2015. Add up to oil creation in 2016 was 659 million barrels as against 776 million barrels delivered in 2015, a fall of 15 percent.

As indicated by the report, subtleties of which were clarified by NEITI's representative, Dr. Orji Ogbonnaya Orji, the misfortunes because of raw petroleum robbery and harm ascended from 27 million barrels in 2015 to 101 million barrels in 2016, speaking to an expansion of 274 percent. This was aside misfortunes because of delay, which in 2016 was put at 144 million barrels which likewise went up by 65 percent when contrasted with the 87.5 million barrels in 2015.

"The besieging of the submerged 48-inch Forcados Oil Loading/Export Pipeline was one of many significant events that came to pass for the business in the year under survey.

"This episode happened in February 2016 and the line remained not operational for seven months," the NEITI report expressed.

The report noticed that in the wake of enduring the droop in the worldwide oil advertise in 2008 and 2009, Nigeria's oil part bounced back in 2010 with a 49 percent expansion altogether money related streams to $44.94 billion, trailed by the pinnacle of $68.44 billion of every 2011.

Notwithstanding, streams from the part have been drifting descending since that crest year with $62.94 billion created in 2012, $58.08 billion of every 2013, $54.56 billion of every 2014, and $24.79 billion out of 2015.

Essentially, oil generation has been on relentless decrease with 866 million barrels created in 2012, 800 million barrels in 2013, 798 million barrels in 2014, 776 million barrels in 2015 and 659 million barrels in 2016.

NEITI's review reports freely accommodate installments by organizations against receipts by government offices, and cover key money related streams, for example, income from clearance of Federation's raw petroleum and gas, part explicit expenses, charges and demands, for example, sovereignty, Petroleum Profit Tax (PPT), signature extra, gas flared punishment, and different streams, for example, NDDC commitment, NCDMB impose, NESS expenses, instruction assessment and others.

The breakdown of the installment demonstrated that the real profit for 2016 originated from fare and household clearance of the Federation raw petroleum and gas with $7.97 billion, PPT with $4.21 billion, and eminence oil with $1.57 billion.

A noteworthy feature of 2016, as indicated by the report, was that without precedent for Nigeria's history, unrefined petroleum delivered from Production Sharing Contracts (PSCs) overwhelmed yield from the Joint Ventures (JVs).

"In 2016, PSCs represented 324 million barrels, while the JVs represented 289.1 million barrels, (as against the 320 million barrels for PSCs and 375.5 million barrels for JVs in 2015).

"PSCs, a generation course of action presented in 1993, in this way turned into the main creation plan in 2016. The PSCs are generally seaward, therefore protected from vandalism and disrupt, and are not obliged by ampleness/accessibility of value subsidizing by the Federation.

"This adjustment underway structure pushes to the fore the need to renegotiate the terms of the PSCs as stipulated in the Deep Offshore and Inland Basin Production Sharing Contracts Act of 1993 in order to build government's take.

The 2016 NEITI report secured 84 elements, involving the accompanying: ten government offices, seven power producing organizations, 62 oil and gas organizations, three refineries, and the NLNG and NGC.
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