According to
a recent report by Daily Trust, a firm working for the government of Ecuador
has said it has plans to discuss with the NNPC over a potential investment to
buy light sweet crude from Nigeria amounting to about 100,000 barrels.
The
NNPC recently commenced an open tendering process for the 2015/2016 Crude
Oil Term Contract for the purchase and sale of Nigeria’s crude oil.
Ecuador
which is the smallest member of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting
Countries (OPEC), according to Victor M.
Rojas, president of Power-Tech Engineers, a company that provides engineering
services for Ecuador’s refinery has said that the country is looking at a
potential to tender to do business directly with the NNPC for as much as
100,000 barrels of Nigerian low sulfur content crude.
Domestically,
Ecuador produces around 500,000 barrels of oil per day, they produce the heavy
sour Napo and Oriente grades of crude, of which the Nigerian crude is sweeter
and lighter than. This is the reason they are looking at importing low sulfur
Nigerian crude grades. The oil producer could be
importing oil for the first time since a 1987 earthquake that destroyed
pipelines in the country.
In an
attempt to maximize diesel and gasoline production, Ecuador’s
state oil company, Petroecuador was recently reported to have issued a tender
to import 30 million barrels of light sweet crude, pending when its Esmeraldas
refinery comes back on stream later this year.
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