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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation ( NNPC) is a state oil company in Nigeria. Formerly a fully-owned government company, it was transformed from into a limited liability company in July 2022. [1] NNPC Limited is the only entity licensed to operate in the country's petroleum industry. It partners with foreign oil companies to exploit ...
Petroleum industry in Nigeria. Nigeria is the second largest oil and gas producer in Africa (after Angola ). [1] Crude oil from the Niger Delta basin comes in two types: light, and comparatively heavy – the lighter has around 36 of API gravity while the heavier has 20–25 of API gravity. Both types are paraffinic and low in Sulphur. [2]
Shell Nigeria is the common name for Shell plc's Nigerian operations carried out through four subsidiaries—primarily Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC). Royal Dutch Shell's joint ventures account for more than 21% of Nigeria 's total petroleum production (629,000 barrels per day (100,000 m 3 /d) (bpd) in 2009).
ExxonMobil Nigeria. ExxonMobil has offshore oil production in Nigeria, and is the country's second largest crude oil producer. [1] Mobil Producing Nigeria (MPN) began shallow water operations in 1955, and owns over 90 platforms and 300 producing wells covering 3,200 square kilometres (1,200 sq mi; 790,000 acres). [2]
Gulf Oil Company of Nigeria which became later known as Chevron obtained oil acreage license in 1961. It is noteworthy for being the first oil major to discover commercially viable offshore oil with its discovery of the large Okan field, at Escravos River in 1963. [1] The field had an estimated 2 billion barrel of oil in place and up to 800 ...
Victoria Island, Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria. Oando Plc is a Nigerian multinational energy company operating in the upstream, midstream and downstream. [1] In July 2016, Oando entered into a tri-partite agreement with the Vitol Group, an independent trader of energy commodities and Helios Investment Partner, an Africa-focused private investment ...
Seplat Petroleum Development Company. Shell Nigeria. South Atlantic Petroleum.
The Port Harcourt Refining Company, ( abbreviated PHRC ), is a Nigeria -based oil and gas company primarily specializing in the refining of crude oil into petroleum products. It is headquartered in Port Harcourt metropolitan area of Rivers State, southeastern Nigeria. The company is a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation ...