The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said it recorded a loss of N18.89 billion in the month of March, 2016, even as it pointed out that the loss was an improvement on a deficit of N24.23 billion recorded in February.
The agency which made the disclosure in its monthly financial report for March, 2016 equally revealed that it remitted N1.118 trillion into the Federation Account between April 2015 and March 2016.
The report added that NNPC also recorded N107.826 billion revenue in 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.
A breakdown of the financial performance of its subsidiaries shows 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, however, 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 in the loss of its entire revenue from crude oil sales of about ₦20 billion.
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 put at N20.02 billion adding that this gave negative margin of N3.95 billion after considering overhead of N6.87 billion.
The report equally 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 was said to have recorded total export proceeds of $170.12 million in the month under review with crude oil export accounting for $98.31 million, while gas export accounted for $71.81 million.
On dollar payments to Joint Venture Cash Call, it said total export proceeds of $141.87 million 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 slump in total export receipt was said to have been 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.
By our Correspondent
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