List of Oil & Gas Companies in Nigeria and Difference Between Upstream, Downstream and Servicing
Oil and gas industry in Nigeria is a quite complex industry and many outsiders struggle to understand the various types of companies and the business they do.
Here, we have explained the various categories of oil and gas firms and listed the companies under each category.
- Upstream (Exploration & Production) companies: These are companies that are established to explore and produce crude oil or crude gas. Some hold licenses to produce crude oil, some partner with those that have licences in joint venture arrangements. Upstream is generally the most lucrative aspect of oil and gas business but it is also by far the most capital intensive. We have supplied the list of E & P companies in Nigeria below.
- Downstream companies: Downstream business involves marketing and distribution of fuel products after they have been refined. All the filling stations, lube plants, domestic gas sales outlets are all into downstream activities. Supply and trading (exporting crude oil and importing fuel products) as well as terminaling are also part of downstream oil and gas business. So all those terminals and tank farms you see in Apapa are into downstream business.
- Midstream companies: Midstream is in-between upstream and downstream. While upstream deals with extracting the hydrocarbon resources from the earth and downstream deals with marketing them after processing, midstream deals with processing the crude oil or gas gas as well the infrastructure. So refining (oil processing) is midstream. Gas processing is midstream. Companies whose business is building pipelines or processing plants for its own use or lease is into midstream.
- Oil servicing companies: These are specialist contractors that help upstream (and sometimes downstream) companies carry out their projects. A simple analogy is this: A house owner is the one that buys the land and brings money to build the house which he will eventually own, but there are specialist professionals he will use in building the house as he cannot do it himself. These experts include architects, bricklayers, carpenter, aluminium providers, surveyors, suppliers of labourers etc.
The house owner is the upstream company, the specialists are the oil servicing companies. Just as we have different experts specializing in different aspects of house construction or maintenance as listed above, we have oil servicing firms with difference specializations. Some of the oil servicing specializations include drilling, seismics, logistics, survey, mud logging, data processing, well services, reservoir services etc. Oil products shipping and logistics companies, and even oil and gas manpower supply companies are also sometimes classified as oil servicing firms.
Exploration & Production (Upstream)
1 ADDAX PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT (NIGERIA)
2 ADDAX PETROLEUM EXPLORATION (NIGERIA)
3 AGIP ENERGY & NATURAL RESOURCES (NIGERIA)
4 BRASS EXPLORATION
5 CHEVRON NIGERIA
6 CONOCO ENERGY NIGERIA
7 CONOCO PETROLEUM NIGERIA
8 ELF PETROLEUM NIGERIA (EPNL)
9 ESSO EXPLORATION & PRODUCTION (NIGERIA) (EEPNL)
10 HARDY OIL NIGERIA
11 MOBIL PRODUCING NIGERIA
12 NEXEN PETROLEUM NIGERIA
13 NIGERIAN AGIP EXPLORATION (NAE)
14 NIGERIAN AGIP OIL (NAOC)
15 PETROLEO BRASILEIRO NIGERIA
16 PHILLIPS OIL COMPANY (NIGERIA)
17 SHELL NIGERIA EXPLORATION & PRODUCTION (SNEPCO)
18 SHELL PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT COMPANY OF NIGERIA
19 STAR DEEP WATER PETROLEUM
20 STATOIL NIGERIA
21 SYNTROLEUM NIGERIA
22 TEXACO NIGERIA OUTER SHELF
23 TEXACO OVERSEAS (NIGERIA) PETROLEUM (TOPCON)
24 TOTAL UPSTREAM NIGERIA Local Companies
25 AFREN ENERGY RESOURCES
26 ALFRED JAMES PETROLEUM
27 ALLIED ENERGY RESOURCES (NIGERIA)
28 AMALGAMATED OIL
29 AMNI INTERNATIONAL PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT
30 ATLAS ORANTO PETROLEUM OIL
31 CAMAC NIGERIA
32 CONOIL PRODUCING
33 DUBRI OIL
34 EQUATOR EXPLORATION NIGERIA
35 EXPRESS PETROLEUM & GAS
36 FAMFA OIL
37 MIDLANTIC INTERNATIONAL
38 MILLENIUM OIL & GAS COMPANY (MOGCL)
39 MONI PULO
40 NIGERIAN NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION (NNPC)
41 NIGER DELTA PETROLEUM RESOURCES
42 NIGERIAN PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT COMPANY (NPDC)
43 NOREAST PETROLEUM
44 OILWORLD
45 OPTIMUM PETROLEUM DEV.
46 ORIENT PETROLEUM RESOURCES LIMITED
47 ORIENTAL ENERGY RESOURCES
48 PAN OCEAN OIL CORP. (NIGERIA)
49 SAHARA ENERGY FIELDS
50 SOLGAS PETROLEUM
51 SOUTH ATLANTIC PETROLEUM (SAPETRO)
52 SUMMIT OIL INTERNATIONAL
53 SUNLINK PETROLEUM
54 YINKA FOLAWIYO PETROLEUM
Base Logistics, Life Camp Management
55 BRAWAL SHIPPING (NIGERIA)
56 INTELS NIGERIA (INTEL SERVICES)
57 LADOL – LAGOS DEEP OFFSHORE LOGISTICS BASE
58 NEPTUNE MARITIME NIGERIA
59 PRODECO (PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT COMPANY)
60 SNAKE ISLAND INTEGRATED FREE ZONE
Government Agences/Associations
61 DEPARTMENT OF PETROLEUM RESOURCES (DPR)
62 NATIONAL PETROLEUM INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT SERVICES (NAPIMS)
63 NIGERIAN ASSOCIATION OF PETROLEUM EXPLORATIONISTS (NAPE)
64 NIGERIAN NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION (NNPC)
65 PETAN (PETROLEUM TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA)
Oil servicing (Geophysicals, Seismics, Data Processing, Geology, Geosciences)
66 COMPAGNIE GENERALE DE GEOPHYSIQUE (NIGERIA) (CGG)
67 FIRST FOSSIL NIGERIA
68 GLOBAL ENERGY COMPANY
69 INTEGRATED DATA SERVICES (IDSL)
70 LANDMARK GRAPHICS
71 MABON GEOPHYSICAL NIGERIA
72 MASSOIL FIELD SERVICES
73 PETROLEUM GEO SERVICES NIGERIA (PGS)
74 SCHLUMBERGER GECO PRAKLA NIG.
75 SCHLUMBERGER GEOQUEST
76 SCHLUMBERGER WESTERNGECO
77 UNITED GEOPHYSICAL (NIGERIA)
78 VERITAS GEOPHYSICAL (NIGERIA)
Survey
79 FUGRO-IGN
80 FUGRO SURVEY NIGERIA
81 SURVICOM SERVICES
82 ZENITH NIGERGROUP
Oil servicing (Drilling Contractors)
83 GLOBAL OFFSHORE DRILLING (GSF)
84 ENSCO DRILLING COMPANY NIGERIA
85 FORASOL DRILLING (WEST AFRICA)
86 KARAMAY DRILLING COMPANY / CNPC NIGERIA
87 KCA DEUTAG NIGERIA
88 LONESTAR DRILLING NIGERIA
89 NOBLE DRILLING (NIGERIA)
90 PARKER DRILLING (NIGERIA)
131 ZUKUS INDUSTRIES
91 SAIPEM CONTRACTING NIGERIA
92 SEDCO FOREX OF NIGERIA (TRANSOCEAN)
93 TECON OIL SERVICES
Oil servicing (Drilling Fluids & Chemicals, Barytes, Bentonite)
94 AFRICAN PETROLEUM OILFIELD SERVICES (APOS)
95 ANA INDUSTRIES LIMITED
96 BAKER HUGHES NIGERIA
97 BAROID OF NIGERIA (SUB. OF HALLIBURTON)
98 DELTA PROSPECTORS
99 EUNISELL
100 GGI INTERNATIONAL
101 HAMILTON TECHNOLOGIES
102 M-I NIGERIA
Oil servicing ( Drilling & Well Services, Directional Drilling, MWD, Mud Logging, Reservoir Services)
103 ARIBOIL COMPANY
104 BAKER NIGERIA
105 BJ SERVICES NIGERIA
106 CISCON NIGERIA
107 CLEDOP WEST AFRICA
108 CORELAB NIGERIA
109 ECODRILL (NIGERIA)
110 EMVAL / KANUCO / JD ENERGY SERVICES
111 GEOSERVICES (NIGERIA)
112 HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES (NIGERIA)
113 INTERDRILL NIGERIA
114 KASOLUTE NIGERIA
115 MELVON NIGERIA
116 OILDATA WIRELINE SERVICES
117 OILSCAN
118 OILTEST SERVICES
119 PETROLOG
120 QUAD MUD LOGGING (NIGERIA)
121 ROXAR NIGERIA
122 VRMT INTERNATIONAL (NIGERIA)
123 SART NIGERIA (RESERVOIR FLUIDS LABORATORY INC.)
124 SCHLUMBERGER ANADRILL (NIGERIA)
125 SCHLUMBERGER OILFIELD SERVICES
126 SCHLUMBERGER WIRELINE & TESTING
127 SEGO OILFIELD SERVICES SOWSCO WELL SERVICES (NIGERIA)
Midstream
138, Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG)
139, Gaslink Nigeria Limited
140, Accugas Limited
Downstream companies, due to the ease of entry and relatively low capital requirements are too plenty to be listed here. You can view them here.
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