Nigeria's State oil firm awards oil-for-fuel swap deals – sources
Nigerian State oil firm NNPC issued award letters on Monday for highly sought-after contracts to exchange crude oil for imported fuel, oil industry sources told Reuters.
A total of 15 groupings, with at least 34 companies in total, received award letters, four sources with knowledge of the deals said.
The award letters were circulated on Monday. While the contracts have not yet been signed, that is largely a formality as the terms have been negotiated, the sources said, and the list of companies is unlikely to change.
NNPC spokesperson Ndu Ughamadu, when reached for comment, said he would seek verification of the news.
The number of winners is an expansion on the previous list, which had ten pairings with a total of 22 companies. Oil companies work hard to get on the list, which gives them coveted, and potentially lucrative, access to Nigeria's crude oil cargoes.
NNPC extended the previous contracts at least twice as the nation focused on elections in February this year.
The swap deals have supplied virtually all of Nigeria's gasoline for the past two years, as capped prices mean that other would-be importers cannot make money bringing the fuel into the country.
Nigeria, with a population of some 190-million, consumes close to 40-million litres per day of gasoline and is easily the largest fuel market in West Africa.
While NNPC has refineries with a combined nameplate capacity of 445 000 bbl/d decades without regular maintenance or investment leaves the nation almost wholly reliant on imports.
The following is a list of the winning groups:
1: BP/Aym Shafa
2: Vitol/Varo
3: Trafigura/AA Rano
4: MRS
5: Oando/Cepsa
6: Bono/Akleen/Amazon/Eterna
7: Eyrie/Masters/Cassiva/Asean Group
8: Mercuria/Barbedos/Petrogas/Rainoil
9: UTM/Levene/Matrix/Petra Atlantic
10: TOTSA
11: Duke Oil
12: Sahara
13: Gunvor/Maikifi
14: Litasco /Brittania-U
15: Mocoh/Mocoh Nigeria
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