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Global oil prices slipped below $80 a barrel as energy traders bet on a diplomatic breakthrough between Washington and Tehran. Brent crude fell to three-month lows following signs of an impending deal and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. Traders stripped away the heavy geopolitical risk premium that previously inflated energy costs. Additional crude…
Nigerian motorists and commuters are facing a severe cost-of-living squeeze as retail petrol prices climbed to fourteen hundred naira per litre across major cities. The surge follows a sharp rally in global benchmark crude prices driven by escalating conflict in the Middle East. Rising international oil prices forced domestic refiners and private importers to hike…
Brent crude closed above $100 a barrel on Thursday for the first time since late May, after Iran aligned Houthi fighters struck Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea and opened a second maritime front in a conflict that has already crippled traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. The international benchmark settled 7 percent…
Dangote Petroleum Refinery has resumed gantry loading of petrol in local currency after a week-long suspension. The facility simultaneously increased its ex-depot price by N141 to N1215 per litre. The thirteen per cent price hike will immediately force filling stations to adjust pump rates upward across the country. Customer notices reveal that all outstanding, uncollected…
Petroleum marketers returned to naira transactions at the Dangote Petroleum Refinery on Wednesday after a week of dollar denominated pricing that unsettled Nigeria’s downstream market, but the relief arrived with a higher bill, as the refinery lifted its ex depot petrol price by N140 per litre. A notice issued by the refinery’s commercial department,…
Private petroleum depots have resumed loading petrol and diesel after a week-long operational hiatus triggered by market volatility and price recalibrations. The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria confirmed on Tuesday that depot operators reopened gantries following temporary shutdowns to adjust wholesale prices. Operators halted operations to recalculate replacement costs and demand top-up payments on…
Fuel marketers have resumed lifting petrol and diesel from private depots across the country after nearly a week of disrupted loading, even as ex depot prices climbed again in Lagos and moved unevenly in other coastal hubs, signalling that the volatility unleashed by Dangote Petroleum Refinery’s shift to dollar pricing is far from over….
Nigeria’s daily petrol imports surged by 207 per cent in June, reversing months of steady progress toward domestic energy self-sufficiency. Fresh data from the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority reveals that daily foreign fuel receipts jumped to 18.1 million litres, up from 5.9 million litres in May. The massive influx of offshore fuel…
Aliko Dangote has all but concluded a $2.5bn private share placement for Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals FZE, clearing the path for what is widely projected to become the largest initial public offering in Africa’s history and one of the boldest tests yet of the continent’s ability to finance its own industrial ambitions from…
Nigeria’s downstream petroleum sector is bracing for renewed pressure on the foreign exchange market after Dangote Petroleum Refinery scrapped naira pricing for petrol, diesel and aviation fuel, a decision that could oblige marketers to source as much as 1.84 billion dollars every month to keep the pumps running and tie domestic fuel costs directly…
