Nigeria has achieved a uncommon power milestone as gasoline flaring fell to 7.16% in July 2025, whilst each day gasoline manufacturing rose to 7.59 billion customary cubic ft per day (BSCFD).
That is in accordance with a press launch issued by the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Fee (NUPRC) on Saturday.
“The simultaneous development 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 stated “Nigeria’s gasoline trade has sustained regular development over the previous three years, with each 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 each 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 Gasoline Flare Commercialisation Programme (NGFCP).
Different initiatives embrace growing a Decarbonisation and Sustainability Blueprint, selling Carbon Seize and Storage (CCS), and integrating sustainability into venture planning by the Upstream Petroleum Decarbonisation Template (UPDT).
DGDO efficiency additionally elevated in July
By way of Home Gasoline 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 kind, 63% of output throughout the assessment interval got here from Marginal Sole Threat (previously Marginal Fields), whereas Manufacturing Sharing Contracts (PSCs) accounted for twenty-four%. Joint Enterprise (JV) contracts contributed 10%, and Sole Threat (SR) operators delivered the remaining 3%.
“Gasoline 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 discipline and plant operations (personal use). Firms deployed gasoline primarily for in-house functions equivalent to gasoline, gasoline lifting, and reinjection for strain upkeep,” NUPRC stated.
Gasoline-to-Energy provide hit its strongest degree in three months, with common each day deliveries rising by 3.48% month-on-month, from 833.86 million customary cubic ft 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, Gasoline-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 each day averages for Might, June, and July had been 837.64 MMSCF/D, 833.86 MMSCF/D, and 862.86 MMSCF/D, respectively.
What it’s best to know
In July, NUPRC reaffirmed its dedication to ending routine gasoline flaring by 2030 and lowering methane emissions by 60% by 2031 by a gas-centric transition technique.
In keeping with the most recent World Bank’s World Gasoline 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 stated flaring at oil and gasoline amenities operated by the Nigerian Nationwide Petroleum Company Restricted (NNPCL) and several other smaller corporations, possible 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.