Nigeria Natural Gas

Summary Table

  Million Cubic Ft
(MMcf) 		Global Rank
180,490,000 9th in the world
3,009,650 12th in the world
664,628 38th in the world
Yearly Surplus
 + 2,345,022  
Gas Imports
 0  
Gas Exports
929,844  
929,844  
(Data shown is for 2015, the latest year with complete data in all categoreies)

Gas Reserves in Nigeria

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Nigeria holds 187 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of proven gas reserves as of 2017, ranking 9th in the world and accounting for about 3% of the world's total natural gas reserves of 6,923 Tcf.

Nigeria has proven reserves equivalent to 306.3 times its annual consumption. This means it has about 306 years of gas left (at current consumption levels and excluding unproven reserves).

Nigeria Gas Reserves
186,610,000 MMcf
Global Rank: 9th | Share of World's Gas: 2.70 %
306 years of natural gas left
(at current consumption levels)

History of Gas Reserves in Nigeria

Gas Consumption in Nigeria

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  • Nigeria consumes 609,290 million cubic feet (MMcf) of natural gas per year as of the year 2017.
  • Nigeria ranks 38th in the world for natural gas consumption, accounting for about 0.5% of the world's total consumption of 132,290,211 MMcf.
  • Nigeria consumes 3,043 cubic feet of natural gas per capita every year (based on the 2017 population of 200,254,579 people), or 8 cubic feet per capita per day.

Gas Production in Nigeria

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  • Nigeria produces 3,009,650.25 million cubic feet (MMcf) of natural gas per year (as of 2015) ranking 12th in the world.

Gas Exports

  • Nigeria exports 31% of its natural gas production (929,844 MMcf in 2015).

History of Gas Consumption and Production

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