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Nigeria Underproduces As OPEC Raises August Oil Supply By 648,000 Barrels

by Chika Izuora
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Global oil market is seeing more supply gap following a marginal hike in supply as approved by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries(OPEC), yesterday, even as Nigeria suffered underproduction.

The OPEC oil cartel and allied producing nations decided Thursday to boost production of crude by an amount that will likely do little to relieve high gasoline prices at the pump and energy-fueled inflation plaguing the global economy.

The increase of 648,000 barrels per day in August leaves the world thirsty for oil as it rebounds from the COVID-19 pandemic and runs up against the inability of the 23-member OPEC+ alliance to meet its production quotas.

Nigeria and Angola have longstanding shortfalls, while Russia has been losing some of its production because Western customers are shunning its oil, either from fear of sanctions or because they don’t want to be associated with Russia’s war in Ukraine.

According to data collected by the International Energy Agency(IEA), OPEC+ production fell 2.8 million barrels per day below the agreed level in May. The production agreement gives laggards until the end of the year to make up their quotas.

“Only very few of them are likely to be able to achieve this though, either because of limited capacities especially Nigeria and Angola or because of sanctions (Russia),” wrote commodities analyst, Carsten Fritsch at Commerzbank in a research note.

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“The question therefore is whether countries with spare capacities such as Saudi Arabia or the United Arab Emirates will be allowed to step into the breach, Fritsch added.

OPEC+, which includes Russia, confirmed the decision from its last meeting. Before that, it had been adding about 432,000 barrels per day monthly to put oil back on the market after cutting production dramatically during the height of the pandemic.

The increase was seen as a gesture largely by OPEC leader Saudi Araba to U.S. President Joe Biden, who soon afterward planned his first trip to the kingdom as president. Biden, facing political pressure at home, has been urging oil-producing countries to open the taps and help bring down gasoline prices for American drivers.

Gasoline prices around the world have reached painful highs. In the U.S., they surpassed $5 a gallon for the first time this month before dipping in recent days as global oil prices fell on fears of a recession.

Biden has been under pressure to do whatever he can to reduce prices, including urging Congress to suspend gas and diesel taxes and release oil from strategic reserves, although many experts say there’s little he can do.

OPEC, on the other hand, could help lower prices by increasing production — in theory. But many oil-producing countries are struggling to produce as much as the group’s decisions set out.

Yet, doubts have spread in the market about exactly how much spare capacity even the Saudis or the UAE have. And for those two to increase their market share at the expense of other cartel members might be a tough sell.

Oil production levels are likely to be a topic when Biden visits Saudi Arabia next month.

However, the federal goovernment has lamented the rise in crude oil theft which has affected its crude oil production so far this year and says it is committed to meeting its quota by August.

Minister of state for petroleum, Timipre Sylva, who said this, also added that, OPEC+ major members cannot also meet the new capacity required to pump more and tame oil prices.

“For us in Nigeria we are at a low point. We are not able to meet our OPEC quota,”

“We have given ourselves just about a month to ensure that we can. We believe that by August we would see some improvement in security,” Sylva projected.

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