The Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation (NNPC) has paid the sum of N69.544 billion into the Federation
Account in March.
This is contained in the corporation's monthly financial report
for March released in Abuja.
It said that amount had brought the total amount paid to the
Federation Account for Domestic Crude Oil and Gas and other receipts from April
2015 to March 2016 to N1.118 trillion.
It added that NNPC also recorded N107.826 billion revenue in the
month of March against N104.804 in February.
It said that the revenue rose marginally by 2.88 per cent,
adding that the expenses of the corporation dipped by 12.92 per cent to
N112.368 billion from N129, 034 billion recorded in previous month.
According to the report, the corporation also made a loss of
N18.89 billion in the month under review.
It said the loss was an improvement from a deficit of N24.23
billion recorded in February.
A breakdown of the financial performance of its subsidiaries
showed that the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC), Integrated Data
Services Limited (IDSL) and National Engineering and Technical Company Limited
posted losses of N9.874 billion, N469 million and N69 million, respectively.
It reported that the Nigerian Gas Company recorded a profit of
N5.155 billion.
``Kaduna, Port Harcourt and Warri refining companies recorded
losses of N1.824 billion, N1.971 billion and N845 million, respectively, while
the PPMC recorded a deficit of N923 million,’’ it added.
The report said that the deficit recorded by NPDC in February
and March 2016 were due to production shut–in occasioned by vandalism of
Forcados Export Line.
This, it said resulted to the loss of its entire revenue from
crude oil sales of about ₦20 billion.
The report also put the combined value of output by the three
refineries at import parity price in March 2016 at N22.93 billion, while the
associated Crude plus freight cost was N20.02 billion.
It said that this gave negative margin of N3.95 billion after
considering overhead of N6.87 billion.
The report also said that a total of N85.66 billion was
collected as sales revenue from white products sold by PPMC in the month of
March 2016 compared with N85.23 billion collected in the previous month.
“Total revenues generated from the sales of white products for
the period April 2015 to March 2016 stands at N775.90 billion where PMS
contributed about 88.85 per cent of the revenues collected with a value of
N689.41 billion".
The NNPC recorded total export proceeds of 170.12 million
dollars in the month under review with crude oil export accounting for 98.31
million dollars, while gas export accounted for 71.81 million dollars.
On dollar payments to Joint Venture Cash Call, it said total
export proceeds of 141.87 million dollars were recorded in March, 2016
consisting of crude oil receipt of 88.36 million dollars.
It added that Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) and Escravos Gas to
Liquid (EGTL) recorded proceed of 1.52 million dollars and Miscellaneous
receipts amounting to 51.99 million dollars.
“The drastic slump in total export receipt is largely due to
shut in of about 300,000 barrel of oil per day (bopd) at Forcados Terminal
following the force majeure declared by Shell Petroleum Development Company
(SPDC) on 15th February, 2016.
``Hence, all un-lifted February and March cargoes were deferred
until the repair is completed.” (NAN)
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