Oil buoys Seplat, but pipelines and politics pose problems
Last year, theft on the Nembe Creek Trunk Line (NCTL) and Trans Niger Pipeline ranged from 30% to 90%.
Last year, theft on the Nembe Creek Trunk Line (NCTL) and Trans Niger Pipeline ranged from 30% to 90%.
Seplat Energy has recorded a strong increase in financial metrics, even while the company struggled to export production in the face of pipeline interruptions.
Seplat Energy said it has begun commercial injection of crude oil through the Amukpe-Escravos pipeline.
Seplat Energy has boost profits among higher production, with the company staying confident on its planned purchase of ExxonMobil’s local Nigerian unit.
Seplat Energy has reported some slow progress at pipeline projects, but with EBITDA growing at 82% year on year it is seeing a clear benefit from higher oil prices.
Seplat Energy saw production drop in 2021 but, with the expectation that a new export route will open in March, expects better things ahead.
Lower oil prices cut into Seplat Petroleum’s revenues for the first nine months of the year, to $388 million down from $494.9mn for the same period of 2019.
Seplat fell to a loss in the first half of the year as oil prices roughly halved, from $65.16 per barrel in the first half of 2019 to $35.94.
Seplat Petroleum’s revenue fell 6.5% in 2019 while cash flow from operations fell 32.7%, but the company was keen to highlight its resilience to the current macroeconomic shock.