Letter on Africa: Nigeria's oil and gas industry needs more than new faces
IOCs are reducing their footprint in what was until recently Africa's largest oil producer despite key oil legislation being passed
Nigeria’s oil and gas industry needs a reset. Years of underinvestment, crude theft and sabotage have weighed down output. Oil production hit a low of 1.1mn bl/d in mid-2022, almost half that seen in January 2020. Although output in December 2022 was up to 1.4mn bl/d of crude and condensate, the medium-to-long-term outlook is not encouraging, and the 2mn bl/d it reached just a few years ago seems a distant memory. With presidential elections imminent, can a change of guard breathe much-needed life into the country’s ailing industry? The current administration was able to oversee the passage of the long-awaited Petroleum Industry Act (PIA), but subsequent implementation has been slow. And cru
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