Nigeria Boosts Oil Production To 1.71m bpd, A 10% Increase — NUPRC
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Nigeria’s oil output recorded significant growth in July 2025, averaging 1.71 million barrels of oil per day (bopd), according to newly released statistics by the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC).
The figure comprised 1.507 million bopd of crude oil and 204,864 bopd of condensates.
This reflected a 9.9% year-on-year surge from the 1.56 million bopd produced in July 2024, which included 1.33 million bopd of crude oil and 226,866 bopd of condensates.
The announcement comes after the Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC), Bayo Ojulari, at the opening of the Africa Chiefs of Defence Staff Conference held in Abuja, on Monday, revealed that specialised international and continental cartels exploit security gaps to steal crude from Nigeria.
The NUPRC statistics showed that on a month-on-month basis, output rose by 0.89% compared to the 1.69 million bopd recorded in June 2025, which comprised 1.505 million bopd of crude oil and 191,572 bopd of condensates.
On the monthly performance of Nigeria’s crude oil terminals, Forcados recorded the highest output in July 2025 with 9.04 million barrels, representing a 2.1 per cent increase from 8.85 million barrels in June.
At the Bonny terminal, production rose to 8.07 million barrels in July, a 12.7% increase compared to 7.16 million barrels recorded in the previous month.
The Qua Iboe terminal pumped 4.55 million barrels in July, slightly lower than the 5.08 million barrels produced in June.
Output from the Escravos terminal climbed by 7.1 per cent to 4.47 million barrels in July, up from 4.17 million barrels in June.
Bonga terminal delivered 3.68 million barrels in July, reflecting a 4.2 per cent rise from the 3.53 million barrels recorded in June.
The Odudu (Amenam Blend) terminal posted a 2.9 per cent growth, producing 2.12 million barrels in July compared to 2.06 million barrels the month before.
Production output at the Tulja-Okwuibome terminal rose by 2.8 per cent, from 2.02 million barrels in June to 2.08 million barrels in July.
Similarly, production at the Brass terminal surged by 27 per cent, increasing from 877,975 barrels in June 2024 to 1.12 million barrels in July.
Nigeria’s 2025 federal budget was premised on an oil benchmark price of about $75 per barrel and a production target of 2.06 million.
However, the target has not yet been met due to large-scale crude theft in oil-producing regions, especially the Niger Delta.
At the security summit, Ojulari advised that the oil theft menace should be handled through collaboration and synergy among various military formations across Africa.
He said: “Crude theft and its attendant illegal activities are by no means a purely localised occurrence; rather, these operations involve specialised international syndicates that take advantage of gaps within the state, national and continental security architecture to conduct illegal activities,” he said.
Ojulari, however, declared that crude theft and pipeline vandalism, especially within the oil-rich Niger Delta area of Nigeria, have been largely resolved because of the efforts of security agencies.
“Security forms a key pillar of the energy business and therefore plays a very important and strategic role in achieving national, regional and continental energy security goals,” he said, noting that as head of the largest national oil company on the continent, “we have seen the benefit of the collaboration within the energy space, with significant improvement in our operating environment”.
The NNPC GCEO added: “The dilapidating impact of crude theft, low pipeline availability and attacks are issues that have become stories of the past for us. These have come from the immense and intentional efforts of our government agencies across the nation and, in particular, within the Niger Delta.
“Today, I can proudly report to you all that our pipelines and terminals’ receipt of crude oil, which was somewhere as low as 20 per cent to 30 per cent, that we are attaining close to 100 per cent due to the support of the security forces and the intelligence agencies,” he said.
