- Côte d'Ivoire's share of Nigeria's 2025 crude export earnings (CBN)1
- 4.15%
- Senegal's share (CBN)1
- 2.38%
- Nigerian cargo received by Ghana's Tema refinery, June 20262
- 1 million bbl
Senegal — SAR, Dakar
Ecofin Agency reported in October 2025 that the 30,000 barrels-per-day SAR refinery had run steadily on Nigeria's light sweet Erha grade for most of 2024–25.3 Senegal accounted for 2.38% of Nigeria's 2025 crude export earnings.1
Ghana — Tema Oil Refinery
In June 2026 the 45,000 barrels-per-day Tema Oil Refinery received one million barrels of Nigerian crude purchased from Shell under a tolling arrangement.2 Ghana's recorded imports of Nigerian crude are otherwise small.
Côte d'Ivoire — SIR, Abidjan
Côte d'Ivoire took 4.15% of Nigeria's 2025 crude export earnings, about US$1.31 billion.1 The Natural Resource Governance Institute's study of NNPC oil sales found that regional refineries including SIR mostly used Nigerian crude as feedstock, and also that some cargoes sold under government-to-government contracts in the period it studied were resold by traders rather than refined by the named buyer.4 That history is a reminder that a declared destination does not always identify the end user.
Why Togo appears in the statistics
Togo has no crude oil refinery, yet appears in Nigerian export tables. The waters off Lomé are a well-known ship-to-ship transfer area; in our assessment the entries reflect transhipment rather than Togolese demand, but we have not found an official source that says so and present this as our interpretation only.
Documented buyers at a glance
| Company | Type | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| SAR (Dakar) | Refiner, 30,000 b/d | Ran on Erha crude through 2024–253 |
| Tema Oil Refinery | State refiner, 45,000 b/d | Received 1 million bbl Nigerian cargo bought from Shell, June 20262 |
| SIR (Abidjan) | State refiner | Historically ran mostly Nigerian crude (NRGI, 2015)4 |
Nigerian export statistics record the declared destination and are published by value; importer statistics record arrivals by volume. The two rarely match exactly. See the notes on the markets overview.
The qualities of the grades named on this page are in the Nigerian crude grade database. How such cargoes are actually contracted — by tender, under term contracts or through an established trader — is explained in how Nigerian crude oil is sold, and what a buyer should prepare before approaching any seller is in the international buyer centre.