NUPRC targets higher oil output, partners NRS for revenue growth

Nigeria’s drive to boost oil production and increase government earnings received a fresh boost yesterday as the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) and the Nigeria Revenue Service (NRS) pledged closer cooperation to strengthen the collection of oil and gas revenues.
Speaking during a meeting with the Chairman of the NRS, Mr Zacch Adedeji, at the agency’s headquarters in Abuja, the Commission Chief Executive of NUPRC, Mrs Oritsemeyiwa Eyesan, disclosed that Nigeria was steadily ramping up crude oil production and could attain output of 1.9 million barrels per day.
According to her, the country recorded a peak production level of 1.86 million barrels per day in Ma...