Nigerian oil exports to rise to 1.85m bpd in April
Nigeria’s oil exports are expected to rise to 1.854 million barrels per day (bpd) in April, loading plans showed on Wednesday.
The loadings, monitored by Reuters, compared with an initial plan of 1.694 million bpd in March, a slightly longer month, and would mark the higher bpd export total from Nigeria this year.
The country will also export a planned 95,000 bpd of Akpo condensate, loading programmes showed. Programmes for some smaller grades, such as Ebok and Oyo, were still pending.
Nigeria’s output has remained broadly stable in the past year, with few large-scale attacks on oil facilities despite a threat of renewed hostilities last month from the Niger Delta Avengers, one of the most destructive groups in 2016.
Grade April Barrels March Barrels
cargoes per day cargoes per day
Abo 1 23,000
Agbami 7 6 189,000
Amenam 3 95,000 4 123,000
Antan 0 0 1 31,000
Bonga 6 190,000 5 153,000
Bonny Light 5 163,000 6 161,000
Brass River 4 72,000 6 115,000
EA 1 32,000 1 29,000
Ebok*
Erha 4 127,000 3 92,000
Escravos 5 158,000 6 184,000
Forcados 10 262,000 11 248,000
Okono none none
Okwori none none 1 21,000
Oyo* 0 0
Pennington 1 32,000 0 0
Qua Iboe 10 317,000 8 223,000
Usan 2 63,000 3 97,000
Okwuibome 1 30,000
Yoho 2 63,000 1 31,000
Total 62 1.854 62 1.694
(mln) (mln)
