The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) on Monday said the country’s crude oil production hit 99 per cent of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to hit 1.48million barrels per day (mbpd) from the 1.40million barrels per day (mbpd) recorded in March 2025.
This was contained in its document titled “Crude Oil and Condensate Production April 2025.”
The document said, “The average crude oil production was 99% of the OPEC quota (1.5mbopd).”
NUPRC also noted that in the period under review, the lowest and peak crude oil and condensate production was 1.60mbpd and 1.73 mbopd respectively.
It added that the daily average production in April was 1.68 mbopd
comprising both crude oil (1.48mbpd and Condensate 197,607bopd).
Recall that in March, Nigeria crude oil production declined 93% of OPEC quota from the 98% it recorded in February.
The commission said in March, “The average crude oil production was 93% of OPEC (1.5million barrels per day mbpd) quota.”
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The document said Lowest and Peak combined crude oil and condensate production in March were 1.46million bopd and 1.76 bopd respectively.
NUPRC also noted that the daily average production in March was 1,400,783 barrels per day of crude oil and condensate (202993 bopd).
The report did not state the cause of the decline in output but it may not be unconnected with the disruption of production in Rivers State in the month under review.
Recalled that the output had declined by 5 per cent in February 2025 to an average of 1.67million barrels per day (bopd) from an average of 1.73 million bopd in January 2025 due to the maintenance of the Transmission Nigeria pipeline to Bonny terminal.
An unauthorized source at the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) who spoke with The Nation had said, “The decline was majorly due to pipeline maintenance (at one of the segments of Trans Niger pipeline going to Bonny Terminal) and fire outbreak at one of the production evacuation points of NNPC Ltd.
NUPRC has earlier released its monthly production data for February.