NNPC Targets Higher Crude Production, Says No Infraction On Trans Niger Pipeline

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) has declared that the Trans Niger Pipeline (TNP), especially in the Eastern Corridor, has no infractions and therefore running green.

It is targeting crude oil production of two million barrels per day by 2027 and three million barrels per day by 2030, as well as aiming for 12 billion standard cubic feet of natural gas per day by 2030.

The head, Field Operations, Eastern Corridor, NNPC Project Monitoring Office, Engr. Omojevwhe Akponime, spoke at a stakeholders’ meeting organised by a pipeline surveillance firm, Pipeline Infrastructure Nigeria Limited (PINL) in Port Harcourt.

Akponime stated that daily reviews by the NNPCL management shows that lines in PINL’s area of coverage running green.

Recounting a recent NNPC management session, he said, “There is no question for PINL. They said so because they are doing well.”

In his welcome address, PINL’s general manager, Community and Government Relations, Dr Akpos Mezeh, said host communities and stakeholders along the TNP and the Eastern Gas Network (EGN) will play a decisive role in whether Nigeria meets its oil and gas production targets for 2027 and 2030.

Akpos Mezeh, General Manager, Community and Government Relations, said the industry is entering a period of renewed growth. He linked rising output in part to the stability of the pipeline networks that carry it. Meeting the targets,

he said, will depend on closer cooperation between the company, host communities and every stakeholder along the corridors.

He pointed to NNPC Ltd’s recently released audited results for 2025. The company reported a Profit After Tax of ₦7.2 trillion, up 33 percent from ₦5.4 trillion in 2024.

“More importantly for our discussion today, crude oil and condensate production averaged 1.77 million barrels per day in 2025, the company’s highest production level in five years,” he said. Natural gas production averaged 7.2 billion standard cubic feet per day, the highest in three years.