{"id":165020,"date":"2022-03-21T14:06:08","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T13:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=165020"},"modified":"2022-03-21T14:07:12","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T13:07:12","slug":"80-of-nigerias-oil-production-lost-to-theft-says-austin-avuru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/03\/21\/80-of-nigerias-oil-production-lost-to-theft-says-austin-avuru\/","title":{"rendered":"80% of Nigeria&#8217;s oil production lost to theft, says Austin Avuru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former chief executive officer of Seplat Energy Plc, Austin Avuru has disclosed that 80 percent of Nigeria&#8217;s oil production is lost to oil theft.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s2\">This is coming amid an assertion by Tony Elumelu, chairman of the United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc that Nigeria is<\/span><span class=\"s2\">\u00a0\u201closing over 95 percent of oil production to thieves\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Avuru, in a report, titled \u201cReining in the Collapse of the Nigerian Oil Industry\u201d published by the Africa Oil+Gas Report,\u00a0 called for a state of emergency in the Nigerian oil and gas sector.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">He urged regulators and the Nigerian National Petroleum Company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/03\/04\/it-is-ironic-nnpc-continued-to-declare-profit-but-made-zero-remittance-to-faac-ngf\/\">(NNPC)<\/a> to set up a \u201cwar room\u201d strategy to develop a plan to return the oil sector to \u201cfull bloom\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cWith eyes fixed on divestments and exit, the IOCs have not made any meaningful investments in the last fifteen years,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cThe result has not just been declining production. Much worse, the entire export pipeline network has been surrendered to vandals and illegal bunkerers. Thus, the phrase \u201cCrude theft\u201d which crept into the industry about 2010 has taken on a new meaning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cThere are some pipeline systems now (particularly in the East), where 80% (eighty percent) of production injected therein does not make it to the terminal!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">According to him, almost every producer is now cooking up \u201calternative evacuation\u201d schemes that cost four to five times what pipeline export would normally cost!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cThe stark reality today is that the IOCs are leaving. Their decision to leave is outside our control as a nation. In fact, over the last twelve years, Shell and Chevron have divested from a total of twenty-one blocks. It is now public knowledge that Shell and ExxonMobil are now exiting the onshore\/shallow water altogether,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cIn fact, my projection is that, by Christmas day of 2025, TOTAL would be the only IOC in J.V with NNPC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cThe situation is the same with domestic gas delivery. Even though we are weaving all the right slogans about the future of gas in Nigeria, in the past five years, I can only point at a couple of Nigerian independents who are investing in gas development and processing for the domestic market.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cThe state of the NNPC Towers in Abuja, headquarters of the Nigerian oil industry: Just standing back and intervening by pre-emptive acquisitions cannot be a sustainable solution to the question of retreating IOCs Nigerian Petroleum Industry is a National Emergency. Oil production is down to about 1.4Million barrels per day and declining and this includes about 600,000BOPD from the deepwater.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cDomestic gas production has stagnated at about 1.2Billion cubic feet (Bcf) per day over the past five years at a time when projected production should have been 3.5Bcf per day. The collateral impact of course, is the low level of power generation which itself has stagnated at about 4,000Mega watts per day since 2015.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Avuru added that the full impact of the current oil production level can only be imagined when oil prices return to the $60 per barrel level.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cI dare repeat that the situation has to be treated as a national emergency,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cBetween the upstream regulator (the commission) and NNPC, they need to set up a \u201cwar room\u201d, some form of an effective task force to develop a blueprint for returning the industry to full bloom. The responses we hear today to the myriad of problems outlined above have been ad-hoc, knee jerk and in some cases only self-serving.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Avuru outlined some issues that must be addressed in the oil and gas sector.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cWhen IOCs leave a matured petroleum patch, independents, whether local or international, usually move in to inject fresh capital, run a nimble efficient operation and maximize production and reserves addition,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cA well-organised transition driven by a clear policy direction, from the retreating IOCs to a crop of efficient independents with the requisite resources will have to be implemented.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cJust standing back and intervening by pre-emptive acquisitions cannot be a sustainable solution proffered by NNPC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cThere has to be a deliberate policy-driven return to the traditional onshore\/shallow water terrains. Eighty percent of our remaining reserves are still in this belt.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cTo do this, we have to address the twin problems of reliable pipeline evacuation and community restiveness. These problems have become heightened, not because there is no solution, but because we have abandoned every attention to them in the last fifteen years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cWhen these two problems are tackled, plus a strict application of the \u201cdrill or drop\u201d provisions of the new PIA, huge investments in drilling and facilities revamp will flow again into this terrain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cFinally, we have to match our gas slogans with effective, measurable, policy actions to drive investments in domestic gas supply. The current flip-flops on pricing and commercial structure of the gas business cannot stimulate investments in the sector.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cThis industry will not wake up by God\u2019s miracle. We have to wake up and design the stimulant that will revitalise it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Recall that the<span class=\"s2\"> Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) had stated that the<\/span><span class=\"s2\">\u00a0country loses more than 115,000 barrels per day to oil theft and vandalism.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former chief executive officer of Seplat Energy Plc, Austin Avuru has disclosed that 80 percent of Nigeria&#8217;s oil production is lost to oil theft. This is coming amid an assertion by Tony Elumelu, chairman of the United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc that Nigeria is\u00a0\u201closing over 95 percent of oil production to thieves\u201d. 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