{"id":174901,"date":"2025-08-18T22:17:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T21:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/nigerian-government-vows-to-sustain-oil-production"},"modified":"2025-08-18T23:21:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T22:21:42","slug":"nigerian-government-vows-to-sustain-oil-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-government-vows-to-sustain-oil-production","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Government Vows to Sustain Oil Production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Nigerian government has vowed to sustain its crude oil production above a 1.5 million barrel per day monthly average quota.<\/p>\n<p>Gbenga Komolafe, the Chief Executive of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission, disclosed this at the recent Project One Million Barrels Initiative.<\/p>\n<p>In July, Nigeria\u2019s average daily crude production rose to 1,507,000 barrels per day, according to a report by OPEC; this is a 7,000-barrel-per-day increase above the organization\u2019s quota for the country.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting, Komolafe said Nigeria is actively ramping up crude oil production by reactivating dormant fields, fast-tracking regulatory approvals, and enhancing operational efficiencies across the upstream value chain. Komolafe maintained that the current administration had succeeded in raising oil (crude and condensate) from 1.4 mbpd to 1.7 mbpd.<\/p>\n<p>He said the recent increase in oil production by about 300,000 bpd confirmed the government\u2019s efforts to achieve the ambitious 2 mbpd oil output.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith a clear target of increasing production from 1.46 million barrels per day to 2.5 million bpd by 2026, the initiative has already demonstrated strong momentum with current unreconciled daily production averaging 1.7\u20131.83 mbpd,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Nigerian government has vowed to sustain its crude oil production above a 1.5 million barrel per day monthly average quota. Gbenga Komolafe, the Chief Executive of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission, disclosed this at the recent Project One Million Barrels Initiative. In July, Nigeria\u2019s average daily crude production rose to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":174899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[701,254,202,369],"class_list":["post-174901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-fg","tag-nigeria","tag-oil","tag-opec"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigerian Government Vows to Sustain Oil Production - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Nigerian government has vowed to sustain its crude oil production above a 1.5 million barrel per day monthly average ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-government-vows-to-sustain-oil-production\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nigerian Government Vows to Sustain Oil Production\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Nigerian government has vowed to sustain its crude oil production above a 1.5 million barrel per day monthly average ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-government-vows-to-sustain-oil-production\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-18T21:17:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-18T22:21:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1755543252.171008.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"509\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-government-vows-to-sustain-oil-production#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-government-vows-to-sustain-oil-production\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Nigerian Government Vows to Sustain Oil Production\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-18T21:17:04+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-18T22:21:42+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-government-vows-to-sustain-oil-production\"},\"wordCount\":193,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-government-vows-to-sustain-oil-production#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1755543252.171008.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"FG\",\"Nigeria\",\"Oil\",\"OPEC\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-government-vows-to-sustain-oil-production#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-government-vows-to-sustain-oil-production\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-government-vows-to-sustain-oil-production\",\"name\":\"Nigerian Government Vows to Sustain Oil Production - 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