Crude oil is undoubtedly Nigeria’s number one source of income, and there seems not to be any commitment to creating new alternatives in the nearest future. Like every other business, demand and supply is unpredictable hence, the need to make provision for storage where buyers could conveniently come to load products for onward shipment to buyer’s tank farm or port of destination. In this article, we would be listing out the many crude oil terminals in Nigeria.
There are onshore and offshore terminals. The former are land platforms while the latter are comprising A floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) and floating storage and offloading (FSO). Data obtained from DPR shows that Nigeria has more than twenty crude oil terminals in total.
Crude Oil Terminals (FPSO PLATFORMS)
| S/N | TERMINAL | TYPE | PLATFORM | PRODUCT | CAPACITY | OPERATOR |
| 1 | UKPOKITI | Offshore | FPSO | Crude Oil | 1,970,258 | EXPRESS/SHEBA |
| 2 | EA (Sea Eagle) | Offshore | FPSO | Crude Oil | 1,479,858 | SNEPCO |
| 3 | ABO | Offshore | FPSO | Crude Oil | 933,130 | NAE |
| 4 | OYO | Offshore | FPSO | Crude Oil | 1,109,580 | ALLIED/AGIP |
| 5 | PENINGTON | Offshore | FPSO | Crude Oil | 2,224,132 | CHEVRON |
| 6 | OBE | Offshore | FPSO | Crude Oil | 224,176 | CAVENDIHS |
| 7 | OKWORI | Offshore | FPSO | Crude Oil | 1,700,000 | ADAX |
| 8 | ANTAN | Offshore | FPSO | Crude Oil | 1,036,750 | ADAX |
| 9 | OKONO | Offshore | FPSO | Crude Oil | 949,000 | NPDC/AENR |
| 10 | OKORO | Offshore | FPSO | Crude Oil | 360,000 | AMNI |
| 11 | AGBAMI | Offshore | FPSO | Crude Oil | 2,150,000 | CHEVRON |
| 12 | ERHA | Offshore | FPSO | Crude Oil | 2,355,335 | ESSO (MOBIL) |
| 13 | BONGA | Offshore | FPSO | Crude Oil | 2,000,000 | SNEPCO |
| 14 | AKPO | Offshore | FPSO | Crude Oil | 2,000,000 | TUPNI |
| 15 | USAN | Offshore | FPSO | Crude Oil | 2,000,000 | TEPNG |
FSO PLATFORMS
| SN | TERMINAL | TYPE | PLATFORM | PRODUCT | CAPACITY Bbls) | OPERATOR |
| 1 | TULJA | Offshore | FSO | CRUDE OIL | 1,762,445 | STERLING |
| 2 | BRITTANIA-U | Offshore | FSO | CRUDE OIL | 80,000 | BRITTANIA-U |
| 3 | ODUDU/AMENAM | Offshore | FSO | CRUDE OIL | 1,814,044 | TEPNG |
| 4 | IMA | Offshore | FSO | CRUDE OIL | 994,989 | AMNI |
| 5 | YOHO | Offshore | FSO | CRUDE OIL | 2,192,653 | MOBIL |
| 6 | EBOK | Offshore | FSO | CRUDE OIL | 2,000,000 | ORIENTAL |
Crude Oil Terminals (Land PLATFORMS)
| S/N | TERMINAL | TYPE | PLATFORM | PRODUCT | CAPACITY (Bbls) | OPERATOR |
| 1 | ESCRAVOS | Onshore | Land | Crude Oil | 2,600,000 | CHEVRON |
| 2 | FORCADOS | Onshore | Land | Crude Oil | 6,289,832 | SHELL |
| 3 | BONNY | Onshore | Land | Crude Oil | 5,700,000 | SHELL |
| 4 | BRASS | Onshore | Land | Crude Oil | 3,271,000 | AGIP |
| 5 | QUA IBOE | Onshore | Land | Crude Oil | 8,520,000 | MOBIL |
Here is a chart that summarizes the FPSO, FSO and Land platforms respectively.
The above data shows that there are over twenty terminals offshore while five are onshore. Also, FPSO are leading the pack with fifteen different platforms followed by FSO that are six in number.
The largest of them all is Qua Iboe terminal with 8.52 Bbls followed by Forcados and the popular Bonny terminal with 8,289,832 and 5,700,00 Bbls respectively.
