Nigeria oil output 1.6 mln bpd before latest unrest

Nigerian crude oil production was around 1.6 million barrels per day (bpd) excluding condensate before the latest Niger Delta unrest late last week, Minister of State for Petroleum Odein Ajumogobia said late on Monday.

Ajumogobia told Reuters that production had at one point last month dipped to as low as 1.2 million bpd but had recovered again before heavy clashes between the security forces and militants in the western Niger Delta at the end of last week.

“In April it was as low as 1.2, 1.3 million, but it recovered again,” Ajumogobia said in the capital Abuja.
Reuters