The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd) has announced a significant increase in the country’s crude oil production, revealing that output has risen from a low of 960,000 barrels per day in 2022 to an average of 1.71 million barrels per day, with a peak of 1.84 million barrels per day recorded in 2025.
The company attributed the improvement to the implementation of an integrated energy security framework aimed at protecting oil pipelines across the Niger Delta.
The Group Chief Executive Officer of NNPC Ltd, Engr. Bashir Bayo Ojulari, disclosed this on Wednesday during the Parliamentary Roundtable on the State of Pipeline Security held at the National Assembly in Abuja.
According to a statement issued by the Chief Corporate Communications Officer of the company, Andy Odeh, Ojulari said the progress recorded in oil production was the result of a deliberate and well-coordinated security strategy.
He explained that the success was driven by an “integrated energy security model that combines legislative and executive policy alignment, actionable intelligence, kinetic deployment capabilities, regulatory oversight, industry cooperation, and community-embedded surveillance mechanisms.”
Ojulari noted that the effective response to crude oil theft and widespread pipeline vandalism has played a major role in reviving the nation’s oil sector, leading to renewed investor confidence in Nigeria’s oil and gas industry.
He stressed that the steady rise in production demonstrates the impact of strengthened collaboration among government institutions, security agencies, regulators, host communities, and industry operators.
In his welcome remarks, President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, who was represented by Senator Jimoh Ibrahim, called for stronger collaboration among all relevant agencies and stakeholders to address the remaining obstacles to increased production.
Similarly, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, represented by the House Leader, Hon. (Prof.) Julius Ihonvbere, urged participants at the roundtable to assess the progress made so far with a focus on fairness, equity, and sustainable results.
The Parliamentary Roundtable on the State of Pipeline Security was convened by the Joint Senate and House of Representatives Committee on Petroleum Resources.
The event was attended by key government and security officials, including the Senate President, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the National Security Adviser, the Minister of Defence, as well as representatives of oil industry regulatory agencies.
Also present were the Chief of Defence Staff, the Inspector General of Police, the Director General of the Department of State Services, the Commandant General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, alongside representatives of private security firms.
The meeting focused on reviewing the current state of pipeline security and exploring strategies to sustain the gains already made in boosting crude oil production nationwide.
NNPC Says Crude Oil Output Rises to 1.71 Million Barrels Per Day as Pipeline Security Improves
