Nigeria has been unable to produce enough quantity crude oil as the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries specified .
Although Nigeria produced crude oil but the increase was not big enough in April 2026.
The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission made some reports.
They said Nigeria produced about 1.49 million barrels of oil per day in April.
This is close to the target of 1.5 million barrels of oil per day that the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries set.
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries target for Nigeria is the same as this target.
If we look at things that come from crude oil production, like condensates then Nigerias total crude oil production goes up to 1.66 million barrels per day.
The data shows that Nigeria produced 1.85 million barrels of oil per day.
The lowest amount of crude oil produced in a day was 1.46 million barrels.
This means Nigeria has not met its crude oil production target for nine months starting from July 2025.
This is because Nigeria faces problems with crude oil production.
There are problems with producing crude oil in Nigeria.
These problems include crude oil theft, pipeline destruction, old facilities and not enough money being invested in crude oil production.
Crude oil production in Nigeria got a little better compared to the month. In the month Nigeria produced about 1.38 million barrels of crude oil per day which was not enough.
The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission reported that crude oil production in Nigeria increased to about 1.8 million barrels, per day.
Nigeria crude oil production is still not where it needs to be.
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries target for Nigeria crude oil production is important.
Nigeria needs to work on its crude oil production to meet this target.
