Nigeria meets 99.2% of OPEC crude oil production in April

• Dangote Refinery supplied 40.7ml/d to the domestic market,  exported 17.1ml/d

The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) has revealed that in April 2026, Nigeria met 99.2 per cent of its Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) crude oil production quota of 1.5mb/d.

This was revealed in the X handle of the commission, which stressed that the output rose to 1.48b/d of crude oil and 174,873b/d of condensate.

The total crude oil and condensate production, according to NUPRC, was 1.66mb/d.

“Nigeria’s production increased in the month of April to 1,488,540 barrels of crude oil and 174,873 barrels of condensates totaling 1, 663, 413 barrels per day. This implies that Nigeria met 99.2 per cent of its 1.5mbpd OPEC quota of crude oil.”

The report revealed the that the figure also represents a 7.58 per cent increase when compared to the month of March. NUPRC said the peak production in April was 1.85mbpd while the lowest production for the month was 1.46mbpd.

In a related development, the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) in its April 2026 Factsheet released yesterday, said domestic consumption of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) or petrol rose to 51.1ml/d in April compared to the 47.3ml/d recorded in March 2026.

In this period, 40.7ml/d were supplied from the domestic refineries, while 3.7ml/d were imported compared to 34.2ml/d that was supplied from domestic refineries in March as well as the 5.9ml/d that was imported in the same period. Stock sufficiency, however, reduced to 17.7 days from the 15.5 days in the previous month.

According to the NMDPRA, in the period under review, Dangote Refinery Petrochemicals Company (DRPC) achieved 100 percent capacity utilisation for most of the days in April with an average of 99.12 per cent capacity utilisation.

According to the factsheet, the refinery produced 53.6ml/d of petrol, supplied 40.7ml/d to the domestic market and exported 17.1ml/d.

Equally, in the same period, Dangote produced 23.6ml/d of diesel, supplied 8.0ml/d to the domestic market and exported 17.8ml/d. Similarly, the refinery produced 22.9ml/d of aviation kerosene, supplied 2.6ml/d to the domestic market and exported 20.5ml/d.

Dangote, according to the factsheet, recorded 18 days sufficiency of petrol, 39 days of diesel, 70 days of aviation fuel, and 13 days of LPG.

On the other hand, NMDPRA said the Nigerian National Petroleum Company refineries, which are state-owned were shutdown in April.

According to the factsheet, Warri Petroleum Refinery Company (WRPC) and Kaduna Refinery Company (KRPC) were recorded zero production.

On the daily consumption benchmarks, NMDPRA said in April, the benchmark for petrol was 51.1ml/d, diesel 17.3ml/d, aviation fuel 2.6ml/d and 4.8KT/day of domestic gas.

On crude oil, NMDPRA said the volume supplied to domestic refineries decreased to 0.612mb/d from the 0.674mb/d recorded in March.