Companies in the Nigerian oil and gas industry spent less than 24 hours on vessel clearance in November 2025, the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) has said.

According to the Authority’s vessel clearance schedule for November, most applications were processed in few minutes with the shortest period being 4 minutes and the longest 22 hours.

The report, which covered vessels operated by both major and independent marketers, indicated that most delays recorded were due to portal glitch, with application not routed to the appropraite staff. While application processed in 4 minutes was due to immediate submission of vessel documents (Wholesale Petroleum Liquid Supply License, Quality certificate, Invoice, Depot License) not initially provided.

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Companies linked with these vessels include Dangote Petroleum Refinery and
Petrochemicals FZE (MT PLATA NORTH, MT INITIATOR ), Ocraving Petroleum Ltd (MT PINARELLO), NNPC Trading Limited (MT HIGH FIDELITY), NNPC Retail Limited (MT MOSUNMOLA), Heyden Petroleum Limited (MT MOSUNMOLA).

Also recorded are Rainoil Limited (MT Bora), ARDOVA PLC (MT MOSUNMOLA), Matrix Energy Limited (MATRIX TRIUMPH), AYM SHAFA HOLDINGS (MT DIDDI), A.A RANO NIGERIA LIMITED (MT CLEAN MOXIE) among others.

The Authority also noted a sharp increase in premium motor spirit (petrol) import, reaching 52.1 million litres per day in November 2025, from 28.9 million litres in October, and 37.4 million litres recorded in November 2024.

According to the November fact sheet, the NMDPRA said the significant increase in PMS supply in November 2025 was on the account of the imports by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited.

The NMDPRA noted that the imports was aimed to build inventory and further guarantee supply during the peak demand period.

Other reasons for the increase according to the Authority, was due to “low supply recorded in September and October 2025, below the national demand threshold; the need for boosting national stock level to meet the peak demand period of end-of-year festivities and twelve vessels programmed to discharge into October which spilled into November.”

The domestic refinery supply in the period (November 2025) stood at 17.1 million litres per day, as average daily consumption of PMS for the month was 52.9 million litres per day.

Analysis of Dangote Refinery performance, indicates that of the 35 million litres per day planned domestic supply for the refinery, the actual average domestic evacuation in November was 23.52 million per day.

It also noted that no production activities was recorded in all the state owned refineries (Port Harcourt, warri and Kaduna refineries) in the period, as the refineries remained on shut down mode.