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NNPC: Crude Oil and Gas Export Sale rises to $470m in August

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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has said its crude oil and gas export sale in August 2018 was $470 million, indicating an increase of about $78 million when compared with July oil and gas export figures of $391.91 million.

In a statement by NNPC Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs, Ndu Ughamadu, the figures were contained in the corporation’s Monthly Financial and Operations report for August 2018 released on Wednesday in Abuja.

The report, which is the 37th in the series, indicated that crude oil export sales contributed $337.62 million, representing 71.83 percent of the dollar transactions compared with $283.43 million contribution in the previous month.

It stated further that the export gas sales during the period amounted to $132.38 million, adding that the August 2017 to August 2018 crude oil and gas transactions involved crude oil and gas export worth $5.26 billion.

The NNPC report explained that based on the above sales figures, a total export receipt of $450.24 million was recorded in August 2018 as receipt against $382.65 million in July 2018.

Contribution from crude oil during the period amounted to $336.43 million, while gas and miscellaneous receipt stood at $101.33 million and $12.48 million, according to the report.

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A further breakdown of the figures showed that out of the export receipts, $142.31million was remitted to the Federation Account, while $307.93 million was remitted to fund the JV cost recovery for the month of August, 2018 to guarantee current and future production.

The state-owned oil firm said the total export crude oil & gas receipt for the period August 2017 to August 2018 stood at $5.23 billion out of which $3.74 billion was transferred to JV Cash Call as first line charge and the balance of $1.49 billion paid into the Federation Account.

On Naira payments to the Federation Account, the report informed that NNPC transferred N128.40 billion into Account for the month under review. It also explained that from August 2017 to August 2018, the Federation and JV received N879.02 billion and N651.4 billion respectively.

Providing insight into the corporation’s remittances to the national treasury, the NNPC explained that the Federation Crude Oil & Gas Revenue, Federation Crude Oil and Gas lifting, are broadly classified into Equity Export and Domestic crude which are lifted and marketed by corporation and the proceeds remitted into the Federation Account.

It informed that Equity Export receipts, after adjusting for Joint Venture (JV) Cash Calls, are paid directly into the Federation Account domiciled in Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

The corporation explained that domestic crude oil of 445,000 barrels per day was allocated for refining to meet domestic products supply, and payments were effected to the Federation Account by NNPC after adjusting crude & product losses and pipeline repairs & management costs incurred during the period.

 

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