Nigeria has achieved a uncommon vitality milestone as gasoline flaring fell to 7.16% in July 2025, whilst every day gasoline manufacturing rose to 7.59 billion customary cubic toes per day (BSCFD).
That is based on a press launch issued by the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Fee (NUPRC) on Saturday.
“The simultaneous progress in output and decline in flaring underscores the Fee’s drive to spice up manufacturing whereas advancing its 2030 zero-flare dedication,” the NUPRC acknowledged.
The NUPRC mentioned “Nigeria’s gasoline trade has sustained regular progress over the previous three years, with every day common manufacturing hitting 7.59 BSCFD in July 2025. This marks an 8.58% enhance in comparison with the 6.99 BSCFD recorded within the full 12 months of 2024.
“The 7.59 BSCFD every day common additionally represents a 9.84% enhance from the 6.91 BSCFD posted within the full 12 months of 2023, which reveals a sustained rise in gasoline manufacturing,” the Fee added.
Regardless of a rise in manufacturing, the Fee additionally reported a continued discount in gasoline flaring, which fell to 7.16% in July 2025, down from 7.55% in 2024 and seven.38% within the corresponding interval of 2023.
The discount in gasoline flare was recorded regardless of the regular enhance in gasoline manufacturing which displays the Fee’s dedication to finish routine gasoline flaring by 2030.
The Fee has launched into gasoline discount programmes just like the Nigerian Fuel Flare Commercialisation Programme (NGFCP).
Different initiatives embody growing a Decarbonisation and Sustainability Blueprint, selling Carbon Seize and Storage (CCS), and integrating sustainability into challenge planning via the Upstream Petroleum Decarbonisation Template (UPDT).
By way of Home Fuel Supply Obligation (DGDO) efficiency, the sector delivered 72.5% in July 2025, up from 71.8 per cent in June.
Knowledge from the Fee additional reveals that DGDO efficiency stood at 72.2% in January, rose to 73.5% in February, dipped barely to 70.8% in March, earlier than climbing once more to 73.7% and 73.0% in April and Might, respectively.
On gasoline manufacturing by contract sort, 63% of output in the course of the overview interval got here from Marginal Sole Danger (previously Marginal Fields), whereas Manufacturing Sharing Contracts (PSCs) accounted for twenty-four%. Joint Enterprise (JV) contracts contributed 10%, and Sole Danger (SR) operators delivered the remaining 3%.
“Fuel utilisation knowledge reveals that, year-to-date as of July 2025, 35.88% of manufacturing was channelled to export gross sales, 27.82% was equipped to the home market, whereas 29.13% was utilised for area and plant operations (personal use). Corporations deployed gasoline primarily for in-house functions corresponding to gas, gasoline lifting, and reinjection for strain upkeep,” NUPRC mentioned.
Fuel-to-Energy provide hit its strongest stage in three months, with common every day deliveries rising by 3.48% month-on-month, from 833.86 million customary cubic toes per day (MMSCF/D) in June to 862.86 MMSCF/D in July 2025, the best in three months.
Over the primary seven months of the 12 months, Fuel-to-Energy provide stood at 780.23 MMSCF/D in January, elevated to 849.37 MMSCF/D in February, and rose additional to 886.83 MMSCF/D and 886.7 MMSCF/D in March and April, respectively.
The every day averages for Might, June, and July have been 837.64 MMSCF/D, 833.86 MMSCF/D, and 862.86 MMSCF/D, respectively.
In July, NUPRC reaffirmed its dedication to ending routine gasoline flaring by 2030 and decreasing methane emissions by 60% by 2031 via a gas-centric transition technique.
In line with the most recent World {Bank}’s International Fuel Flaring Tracker Report launched in July, Nigeria recorded a 12 p.c enhance in gasoline flaring quantity in 2024, marking the second-largest rise globally.
The World {Bank} mentioned flaring at oil and gasoline amenities operated by the Nigerian Nationwide Petroleum Company Restricted (NNPCL) and several other smaller firms, seemingly with restricted experience or funding for gasoline utilization, accounted for 60 p.c of Nigeria’s gasoline flaring and 75 p.c of the rise in 2024.
