West African country, Nigeria earned a total of N1.8tn from oil export in March as it attained its crude oil production target of 1.6 million barrels per day for the month.
The revenue performance is three million over the February score which was 1.3 million, and January’s which was 1.25mbp.
By leaping 300,000 barrels per day in March, the country’s production jumped 9.3 million barrels in the period under review. Total production was 49,600,000 barrels.
In March, Nigeria’s Bonny Light sold for $78 per barrel, compared with Brent’s $77 per barrel. In other words, the country earned an extra N337bn for the month. In total, crude oil production generated about N1.8tn in revenue.
In December, Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, Budget, and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, at a recent World Bank Nigeria Development Update and Country Economic Memorandum, projected the country’s crude oil production to reach 1.6 million barrels per day by the first quarter of 2023.
Nigeria’s public finance is currently affected by dwindling oil prices, industrial-scale crude oil theft, and the high amount expended on fuel subsidies as Nigeria continues to grapple with an increasing debt burden.
According to the state enterprise, NNPC, about 700 million dollars worth of crude oil is lost to oil theft monthly. Between January and July 2022, Nigeria lost 10 billion Dollars which is equivalent to 4.3 trillion Naira— more than fifty percent of its foreign reserves.