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    Home » Nigeria exports N11.5trn crude oil in six months

    Nigeria exports N11.5trn crude oil in six months

    October 2, 2022
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    Ike Amos

    Dublin, Ireland — Nigeria earned N11.53 trillion from the export of crude oil in the first half of 2022, according to latest data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), dropping by 88.57 per cent compared with N6.114 trillion recorded in the first half of 2021.

    In its Foreign Trade Statistics for the Second Quarter of 2022, the NBS noted that crude oil export in the first six months of 2022 accounted for 79.47 per cent of total exports in the period under review, while it also accounted for 44.62 per cent of total trades in the same period.

    *Crude oil vessel.

    Giving a breakdown of crude oil exports in the first half of 2022, the NBS stated that in the first quarter of the year, crude oil valued at N5.621 trillion was exported by the country, while in the second quarter, N5.908 trillion was exported.

    In comparison, in the first quarter of 2021, the NBS said Nigeria earned N2.043 trillion from crude oil exports, while in the second quarter, N4.072 trillion crude oil export sales were recorded. Furthermore, in the third and fourth quarter of 2021, Nigeria recorded crude oil export of N4.026 trillion and N4.269 trillion, respectively.

    The NBS put Nigeria’s total trade in the first half of 2022 at N25.843 trillion, comprising N13.001 trillion and N12.841 trillion in the first and second quarter of the year, respectively; while total export trade for the first half of 2022 stood at N14.507 trillion, with N7.1 trillion and N7.407 trillion export recorded in the first and second quarter respectively.

    Specifically, the NBS reported that in the second quarter of 2022, crude oil ranked as the most exported commodity in the country, with 79.77 per cent of the country’s total export.

    Furthermore, the statistics agency stated that majority of Nigeria’s crude oil export in the second quarter of 2022 was to countries in Europe, with the continent purchasing Nigeria’s crude oil valued at N2.737 trillion; followed by Asia, with N1.916 trillion; while countries in America purchased N861.937 billion.

    Africa accounted for N355.853 billion of Nigeria’s crude oil export, while N36.459 billion worth of Nigeria’s crude oil was exported to Oceania.

    India emerged the highest buyer of Nigeria’s crude oil, with N1.009 trillion worth of the commodity shipped to the country in the second quarter; followed by the Netherlands, with the purchase of N886.314 billion worth of Nigeria’s crude oil; while N854.859 billion crude oil was exported to Spain.

    Others major crude oil export destinations are Indonesia, N614.954 billion; United States N488.356 billion; Italy N253.817 billion; Sweden N232.152 billion; Canada N226.704 billion; France N192.273 billion and Ivory Coast N191.425 billion.

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