From The Cable Goood news: oil prices hit $80 a barrel on Thursday for the first time since November 2014. Bad news: Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) on Thursday declared force majeure on the exports of Nigeria’s major crude oil, the Bonny Light, effectively cutting off sales of around 250,000 barrels per day (b/d) of the country’s crude from the market. Brent crude,
From Vanguard News Nigeria Nigeria and China have signed a currency-swap agreement worth $2.4 billion to boost commercial ties and reduce the need to use dollar in their bilateral trade. Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele, led CBN officials while Governor of People’s Bank of China (PBoC), Dr. Yi Gang, led the Chinese team at the
Erin Energy Corporation (ticker: ERN) announced unaudited financial and operational results for the year ended December 31, 2017. Full year 2017 revenues were $101.2 million, increasing by approximately 30% from $77.8 million in 2016. Fourth quarter 2017, revenues were $21.7 million compared to $21.1 million for the same period in 2016. Erin Energy reported a net loss of $151.9 million
Frank Ingriselli, independent director and chairman of Erin Energy (ticker: ERN) discussed the Oyo-9 well and related activity on Erin’s prospects offshore Nigeria during the company’s Q3 call last week. Frank Ingriselli: This is my second earnings conference call after my election as Chairman of Erin Board last May. At that last call, I acknowledged that it is an honor
Erin Energy Corp. (ticker: ERN), a Houston-headquartered international oil producer, has assets based entirely in sub-Saharan Africa. The company operates in Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, and Gambia—from approximately 5 million acres. Erin Energy’s Nigeria operations are offshore with a 100% working interest. The offshore production is connected to the Armada Perdana FPSO, or floating production, storage, and offloading vessel. The Aramada
According to the latest S&P Global Platts OPEC survey released July 6, 2017, OPEC’s crude oil output increased by approximately 500,000 BOPD within the last two months, pushing the organization’s total output to 32.49 MMBOPD. OPEC’s June output was 220,000 BOPD larger than May’s output, Platts said. Rises in production from Libya and Nigeria assisted in keeping the organization’s output
Countries exempt from the OPEC production deal are ramping up production Even as the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries looks to rebalance markets through coordinated production cuts within its ranks and with other non-members, production from the group is up. OPEC released its June Monthly Oil Market Report Tuesday showing that its production grew 0.34 MMBOPD to 32.1 MMBOPD in
Shell lifts force majeure on Forcados oil in Nigeria Royal Dutch Shell (ticker: RDSA) lifted force majeure on exports of Nigeria’s Forcados oil grade, returning about 250 MBOPD to world markets, according to shipment data obtained by Bloomberg. Europe’s largest oil company placed the crude grade under force majeure – meaning the company could miss contractual obligations due to circumstances
Oil bounces back after official data shows yet another crude inventory draw Oil prices came back from a nearly 2% decline Wednesday morning following news from the Energy Information Administration that U.S. crude oil inventories fell last week. The oil inventory draw is the seventh time in the last eight weeks that stores of crude went lower despite analysts’ expectations
Libya and Nigeria hope to restart exports that could add substantially to the global glut Both the IEA and OPEC pushed out their forecasts for market balance this week as supply continues to prove resistant to the drop in crude oil prices. Even more crude oil could come back to the market from Libya and Nigeria in coming days, however,
Unplanned outages continue to shore up the market quicker than expected – OPEC The OPEC Monthly Oil Market Report released Monday shows the group expects oil markets to balance out in the second half of this year. Unplanned supply outages in Nigeria and Canada will help to tighten up markets more quickly, the group said. In its report, OPEC maintained
Oil outages take 3.6 MMBOPD off the market in May Unplanned global oil supply disruptions reached their highest monthly level since 2011 when the EIA began tracking to what extent oil outages were affecting output. From April to May, disruptions grew by 0.8 MMBOPD, averaging more than 3.6 MMBOPD, the agency reported. The majority of the increased outages in May
