DPR Doesn’t Know Nigeria’s Oil Output -NEITI – Daily Independent
September 8, 2009 by Bunmi Awolusi
The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) reiterated on Monday that the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) does not measure oil output, regardless of claims by Abuja that production has now risen to 1.7 million barrels per day (bpd).
Federal lawmakers had made the same point on August 31, published in Daily Independent.
An audit report on the oil industry for 2005 by the NEITI said the DPR relies only on terminal receipts to measure production, which it put at 917.7 million barrels for that year, or 2.5 million bpd.
NEITI Media Officer, Jide Arowosaiye, disclosed in a statement that total crude lifted in 2005 was 916.9 million barrels.
