Country Report
Nigeria upstream summary
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Report summary
Nigeria is the largest oil producer in Africa. Production comes from the Niger Delta: 75,000 square kilometres of onshore, swamp and shallow water, leading to a deepwater frontier up to 200 kilometres offshore. Nigeria produces high quality sweet crude, from the prolific Tertiary, Agbada Formation. Reservoirs tend to be small areally but multi-stacked, with hundreds of small deposits throughout the delta. The deepwater discoveries have proven to hold much larger resources. The Niger Delta ...
Table of contents
- The Majors
- Nigerian independents
- M&A
- Introduction
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Niger Delta Basin
- Stratigraphy
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Keta-Togo-Benin basin
- Reservoirs, traps and seals
- Source rocks
- Benue Trough basin
- East Niger Rift basin
- Illumeden basin
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Licensing
- 2006 licence round
- 2007 licence round
- 2020 Marginal Field Bid Round
- 2022 Deepwater Mini-Bid Round
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Tables and charts
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Liquid and Gas Production 2026Remaining Reserves and Contingent Resources at 01/01/2026Net Acreage 2026
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Map of Nigerian Petroleum BasinsOffshore Niger DeltaLiquids Production (kb/d) 2016-2025Liquids Production (kb/d) 2026-2035
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