NNPC’s 70 Pipelines vandalized, Earns N2trn

By Fola James

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC has disclosed that it earned over N2 trillion from the sale of petroleum products within one year.

Within the same period, 70 Pipelines belonging to the government run oil firm were vandalized across the country.

This is contained in the March 2021 edition of the NNPC Monthly Financial and Operations Report, MFOR, according to a press release by the Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division of the Corporation, Kennie Obateru.

The report indicated that total revenues generated from the sales of white products for the period of March 2020 to March 2021 stood at ₦2.129trillion, where petrol contributed about 99.24 per cent of the total sales with a value of ₦2.113trllion.

In terms of volume, the above value translates to 1.75billion litres of white products sold and distributed by PPMC in the month of March 2021 compared to 1.4billion litres in the month of February 2021.
This volume is made up of 1.782billion litres of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) and 0.45million litres of Automotive Gas Oil, AGO.
Total sale of white products for the period of March 2020 to March 2021 stood at 17.374billion litres and PMS accounted for 17.265billion litres or 99.37 per cent.
The corporation said it continues to diligently monitor the daily stock of PMS to achieve uninterrupted supply, effective distribution and zero fuel queue across Nigeria.
In the Gas Sector, a total of 222.74billion cubic feet (bcf) of natural gas was produced in the month March 2021 translating to an average daily production of 7,183.33million standard cubic feet per day (mmscfd).
For the period of March 2020 to March 2021, a total of 2,911.62bcf of gas was produced representing an average daily production of 7,409.60mmscfd during the period.
Production from Joint Ventures (JVs), Production Sharing Contracts (PSCs) and NPDC, the agency said contributed about 63.23 per cent, 19.78 per cent and 63.99 per cent respectively to the total national gas production.

In terms of natural gas off-take, commercialization and utilization, out of the 210.55bcf supplied in March 2021, a total of 138.38bcf was commercialized, consisting of 45.42bcf and 92.96bcf for the domestic and export market respectively.
This translates to a total supply of 1,465.42mmscfd of gas to the domestic market and 2,998.26mmscfd of gas supplied to the export market for the month.

This implies that 63.18 per cent of the average daily gas produced was commercialized while the balance of 36.82 per cent was re-injected, used as upstream fuel gas or flared.

Gas flare rate was 9.50 per cent for the month under review (i.e. 671.13mmscfd) compared to average gas flare rate of 7.25 per cent (i.e. 532.37mmscfd) for the period of March 2020 to March 2021.
On domestic gas supply to the power sector, a total of 844mmscfd was delivered to gas-fired power plants in the month of March 2021 to generate about 3,530mega watts (mw) compared with February 2021 where 825mmscfd was supplied to generate 3,580mw.

The report also indicate that the Corporation recorded 70 vandalized points across its pipeline network in the period under review, representing 29.63 per cent increase from the 54 points recorded in the previous month, as the Port Harcourt area accounted for the highest with 63 per cent of the vandalized points.

The Mosimi area accounted for 21 per cent and the Gombe area accounted for the remaining 16 per cent, the agency said.