The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) has explained that unscheduled maintenance at a refinery facility made Nigeria’s crude oil production drop on a month-on-month basis in August.
This comes as Nigeria’s crude oil production dropped to 1.63 million barrels per day month-on-month in August, down from 1.71 million bopd in July.
NUPRC disclosed this in its Crude Oil and Condensate Production for August 2025, released on Saturday.
This means a 4.7 per cent drop in combined crude oil and condensate production from 1.71 million bopd in July.
In the same vein, crude oil production itself declined by 4.8 per cent, down from 1.5 million bopd in July 2025.
“The month-on-month drop was driven by a single-day unscheduled maintenance at an oil facility.
“In the month of August, the lowest and peak combined crude and condensate production were 1.59 million bopd and 1.85 million bopd, respectively,” NUPRC said.
The data showed that while there was a decline month-on-month, the country’s crude oil production rose on a year-on-year basis by 5.5 per cent to 1.63 mbpd in August this year from 1.58 million bopd in the same period last year.
Further analysis indicates that daily condensate production in August stood at 197,229 bpd, reflecting a decline.
Also, Nigeria’s crude oil output in August achieved 96 per cent of its OPEC quota, which is set at 1.5 million bopd.
Accordingly, in the period under review, Forcados Terminal topped the production charts, delivering a total of 8.99 million barrels, including 8.08 million barrels of crude oil and 915.2k barrels of condensates.
