Nigeria Lost 16% Of Oil Output To Oil Workers’ 3-day Strike, Says NNPCL

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) has reported a important nonaccomplishment of 16% successful the nation’s lipid accumulation people owed to a three-day onslaught by the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), the company’s radical main enforcement officer, Bashir Ojulari, stated.

The onslaught besides substantially reduced state output and powerfulness supply, dramatically affecting Nigeria’s vigor assemblage and economical stability.

In a ceremonial missive addressed to the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority and the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission, dated September 29, 2025, Ojulari elaborate the adverse impacts of the concern action.

According to him, the onslaught — which stemmed from deepening conflicts betwixt PENGASSAN and Dangote Refinery management— caused a deferment of 283,000 barrels of crude lipid per time and a nonaccomplishment of 1.7 cardinal modular cubic feet of state daily.

“As of 29 September 2025 (within the archetypal 24 hours of the strike), accumulation deferments stood astatine astir 283 kbpd of oil, 1.7 bscfd of gas, and implicit 1,200 MW of powerfulness procreation impact.

“This equates to astir 16 per cent of nationalist lipid output, 30 per cent of marketed gas, and 20 per cent of energy generation. Should the concern continue, the impacts are expected to intensify, posing a worldly menace to nationalist vigor security,” the GCEO noted.

This disruption corresponded to astir 16 per cent of Nigeria’s crude lipid accumulation and 30 per cent of marketable gas, alongside a 20 per cent shortfall successful powerfulness generation.

He said the closure of cardinal lipid terminals, state plants, and powerfulness facilities was a nonstop effect of the union’s interruption of crude and state supplies, escalating tensions that threatened nationalist vigor security.

Despite the union’s announcement of a impermanent suspension of the statewide onslaught pursuing involution by the national government, PENGASSAN warned that the intermission was fragile and conditional connected tangible resolutions to outstanding concerns.

Ojulari’s letter, seen by Bloomnerg, outlined the contiguous accumulation losses and highlighted the longer-term fallout.

Ojulari said attraction operations important to sustaining lipid and state infrastructure—including the USAN turnaround, AKPO GT-3 pigging, hydrogen good testing, yearly compressor servicing, and SEPNU EAP IGE procedures—have been delayed, perchance exacerbating accumulation challenges.

Also, deferred crude lifting and monetised state volumes from Joint Venture and Production Sharing Contract assets amounting to 100,000 barrels per time and 1.341 cardinal modular cubic feet of state were postponed, intensifying fiscal strain.

While immoderate non-union unit continued crude shipment processes, operations remained constrained chiefly by the strike’s disruptions.

Ongoing and scheduled lifting activities astatine assorted terminals are susceptible to further delays, posing a hazard of accrued demurrage claims from planetary buyers. For example, loading astatine the Brass Terminal was stalled owed to missing documentation, straight linked to the workers’ concern action, resulting successful further demurrage costs.

The NNPCL CEO stressed that the fiscal interaction of the onslaught is mounting rapidly, with gross streams from crude exports and state income nether terrible pressure.

The situation, helium explained, has systemic dangers that widen beyond the refinery dispute, threatening unit safety, plus security, and the broader Nigerian economy.

Ojulari urged for urgent and sustainable solution measures to support Nigeria’s vigor infrastructure and guarantee the country’s vigor information and economical stableness are not compromised further.

While the national authorities continues mediation efforts to resoluteness the standoff, PENGASSAN enactment reiterated that their impermanent onslaught suspension was a motion of respect for governmental involution alternatively than an endorsement of Dangote Refinery’s actions. The national warned that should their demands stay unmet, the onslaught could resume, prolonging the uncertainty implicit 1 of Nigeria’s astir captious vigor assets.