The Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) has said the importation of the Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) petrol declined by 26 per cent to 14.6million litres per day (ML/D) in August 2026.
The importation fell from the 19.7 ML/D recorded in the preceding month, according to the NMDPRA Statistics for August that was released yesterday.
Receipt from the domestic refinery, said the statistics, rose by 39 percent to 35.9ML/D from the 25.8ML/D of July.
In the period under review, the Authority said daily reciept soared by 11 per cent to 50.5ML from the 45.5MLD in preceding month.
NMDPRA said petrol stock efficiency decreased by 2 per cent to 22.4 days in the period under review from the 22.9 days sufficiency in July.
In August, NMDPRA said aggregate of 137.98 million barrels of crude oil were received by the refineries, stressing that 109.88MB were from domestic sources while 28.10MB were imported.
On crude oil receipt by domestic refinery in the month under review, the Authourity said, the local plants recorded increased 683,000 barrels per day, rising 17 per cent from the 585,000b/d received in the preceding month.
Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals, according to the statistics supplied 35.87ML/D of petrol to the domestic market in August. The indigenous plant which produced 41.94ML/D, exported 9.73MLD.
In August, NMDPRA said 50.5ML/D of petrol were received in the country.
The production status of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company refineries: Warri Refinery, Kaduna Refinery and Port Harcourt Refinery were all zero in the month under review.
Aside from Dangote, the modular refineries such as Waltersmith, Edo Refinery and OPAC restricted their production to diesel.
The statistics also shows that a daily average of 14.5ML of diesel was received in Nigeria in August while 3.1 ML/D of aviation fuel and 4.3KT/day of LPG were received.