Nigeria's Minister of State Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, said that the country is capable of producing 3mb/d of crude from the Niger Delta region.
Borno State, in northeastern Nigeria, has joined the league of oil-producing areas in the country, with the discovery of crude oil after many months of exploration,
Indian state-run oil refiners have indicated interest to increase total crude oil consumption volume with additional 2m tons of crude oil import from Nigeria in 2017.