The price of Nigeria’s Bonny Light crude oil was the second highest in December among members of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Counties (OPEC), rising from $42.20 in November to $53.91 per barrel.

This means the country gained about $11.71 per barrel in December. Nigeria therefore, may have added $22 million to its foreign exchange earnings when multiplied by current production of 1.9 million barrels per day in December.

The gain also boosts Nigeria’s capacity to fund its N7.3 trillion 2017 budget, and if the gains continue, may reduce the dependence on external borrowings to fund the budget and other development projects.

Besides, the World Bank expects oil prices to average $55/barrel in 2017, an increase of 29 per cent above the 2016 average price.Also, Global crude oil balances is expected to tighten through 2018, the United States Energy Information Administration (EIA) said last week in a statement.

Analysis from OPEC reference basket revealed Abu Dhabi’s Murban crude oil as the only blend ahead of Bonny Light at the international market in December.

Giving a full year analysis of the price movement, OPEC said the light sweet crude from West and North Africa’s Basket components, Saharan Blend, Es Sider, Girassol, Bonny Light and Gabon’s Rabi, gained $8.53, or 19.1 per cent, to $53.10 during the month under review.

Speaking on rebalancing the oil market, the Secretary-Generals of OPEC, Muhammad Barkindo, said it is essential that all producers, both OPEC and non- OPEC, take coordinated action to return stability to the market.

“This is not only vital for the short term, but the long term too, as our industry looks to fund investment in new exploration and production, arrest decline rates in existing fields, expand midstream and downstream capacity, and hire, train and support the people that will continue to drive this industry forward in the years ahead.”

Meanwhile, the World Bank said in its Commodity Markets Outlook for 2017 released last Wednesday, that the increase largely reflects partial compliance to the recent agreement between OPEC and non-OPEC producers.

According to World Bank, the market is expected to tighten in 2017, particularly in the second half of the year, which would reduce the large stock overhang.

It added that onshore U.S. lower-48 states oil production, including shale, is projected to bottom out in the second quarter of 2017, and rise moderately thereafter.

The Bank noted that prices may increase to $60 barrels in 2018, assuming a balanced market and no additional OPEC supply restraint.It stated: “Crude oil prices jumped 10 per cent in the fourth quarter, averaging $49.1 barrels, following agreements by both OPEC and non-OPEC producers to reduce output by nearly 1.8 million barrels per day in the first half of 2017.

“The oil market continues to rebalance amid steady demand growth, while sharply lower in- vestment in non-OPEC countries has led to lower production, notably in the U.S. shale oil sector.”

Also, the EIA estimates that crude oil and other liquids inventories grew by two million barrels per day (bpd) in the fourth quarter of 2016, driven by an increase in production and a significant, but seasonal, drop in consumption.

Global production and consumption are both projected to increase through 2018, but consumption is expected to increase at a faster rate than production. As a result, global balances are expected to tighten.

The EIA noted that the production increase in the fourth quarter of 2016 largely reflects members of OPEC ramping up production in advance of implementing the November agreement on production cuts.

Nigeria’s Petroleum Resources Minister, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, had expressed optimism that the price of crude would rise to a level that is neither too high nor too low.

He said although crude oil appears to have fallen into bad times because of prevailing low price and the campaign against the use of fossil fuels for environmental reasons, the product would soon rise up to take its place as the prime global energy source.

http://investorsking.com/nigeria-gains-22m-from-bonny-light-crude-in-december/

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Nigeria is on course.... In a matter of time, we would be over our present predicaments!


Thanks to His Excellence! President Mohammadu Buhari (GCFR)

All this money when dem go mention yet dollar na 500,if I say idgaf it's straight from my heart.

When are going to see this money.

My people are suffering in the Niger Delta, some people are feeding fat from our own God given oil. Niger Delta OIL belongs to people of Niger Delta. Non citizen keep off. Avengers where are you ooo

Na where the money dey go e.g grass cutters committee

Still nothing to show for it

I thought by now that our economy wont be relying on crude, we were promised so in the last budget.

I guess nothing changes after all, I am still waiting for the leader that will optimize the use of all our natural and human resources.

I wonder where all these monies are
The sufferness is out of this world
Naija never had it this bad
Buhari wehdone sir

Congrat!

and buhari is using the money to tour the world.

Gain gain come again, come again another day

Nigerians wan to blow


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ZeroTolerance:
Still nothing to show for it

exactly

They will still misuse that money.

Is it not Buhari that in charge? They will misuse the money jare

Where the money dey Fg Don hide am

Useless figures that doesnt show on the people

SMH yeye dey smell

Oya kachukwu were is they money

Where's that gonna go?

And they still won't give us stable electricity! WTF is wrong with all our leaders past n present!?

The problem of nigeria is not money,but how to put it to good use.

vengertime:
My people are suffering in the Niger Delta, some people are feeding fat from our own God given oil. Niger Delta OIL belongs to people of Niger Delta. Non citizen keep off. Avengers where are you ooo

Go do one man army Now, so when Nigeria was feeding on cocoa and other cash crops then, who was laying claims to it then? Hold you leaders responsible for their mismanagement first. BTW, if they leave the oil for you, how much go be your share?

flyca:
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jejemanito:
$22 million = N11 billion



Where's the money?

In my bank account.
That's my share of the National Cake.

Okay

mayoor15:
Go do one man army Now, so when Nigeria was feeding on cocoa and other cash crops then, who was laying claims to it then? Hold you leaders responsible for their mismanagement first. BTW, if they leave the oil for you, how much go be your share?

So what happened to the cocoa and the other cash crops? Did our soil turn sterile just because oil was discovered? The oil belongs to the Niger delta, after all its their land that is being polluted.