{"id":73916,"date":"2025-08-22T08:50:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T08:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=73916"},"modified":"2025-08-22T08:50:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T08:50:25","slug":"nigeria-boosts-oil-output-eyes-2-5m-barrels-daily-by-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/22\/nigeria-boosts-oil-output-eyes-2-5m-barrels-daily-by-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Boosts Oil Output, Eyes 2.5m Barrels Daily by 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria has raised its crude oil production to 1.8 million barrels per day, up from 1.46 million in October 2024, according to the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC).<\/p>\n<p>NUPRC Chief Executive, Engr. Gbenga Komolafe, disclosed this at the PENGASSAN Energy and Labour Summit in Abuja, attributing the rise to the reactivation of dormant fields, enhanced recovery techniques, and the government\u2019s cluster and nodal development strategy, which leverages shared infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Komolafe expressed confidence that with sustained efforts, Nigeria will reach its target of 2.5 million barrels per day by 2026.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed that while oil and gas remain critical, accounting for nearly 90% of the nation\u2019s export earnings; Nigeria must also invest in cleaner energy options and equip its youthful population with the skills needed for future energy transitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo &nbsp; Nigeria has raised its crude oil production to 1.8 million barrels per day, up from 1.46 million in October 2024, according to the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC). NUPRC Chief Executive, Engr. Gbenga Komolafe, disclosed this at the PENGASSAN Energy and Labour Summit in Abuja, attributing the rise to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":73917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1720,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73918,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73916\/revisions\/73918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}