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DPR hopes to realize about $500m from signature bonuses on 57 marginal oilfields

Bassey Udo by Bassey Udo
February 5, 2021
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DPR hopes to realize about $500m from signature bonuses on 57 marginal oilfields

Nigeria hopes to realize revenues of about $500 million from the signature bonuses to be paid by successful bidders for 57 marginal oilfields in the country, the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) said.
The petroleum industry regulator said the bid round processes for the oilfields which began in June 2020 would be concluded by the end of the first quarter of 2021.
The Director, DPR, Sarki Auwalu, disclosed while speaking on Friday during a television programme monitored in Lagos.
A marginal field is any field that has reserves booked and reported annually to the DPR and has remained unproduced for a period of over 10 years.
Mr Auwalu said the objective of the marginal field programme was to deepen the participation of indigenous oil companies in the upstream segment of the industry and provide opportunities for technical and financial partnerships for investors.
The director said that out of the over 600 companies that applied for pre-qualification, 161 were successful and shortlisted to advance to the next and final stage of the bid round process.
“For the signature bonus, what we did internally was to look at the Competent Person Report and objectively estimate the average signature bonus on that field.
“Some fields are high, while some fields are low. We estimate to have not less than $500 million from signature bonus, which is very much on the conservative side,” he said.
Mr Auwalu noted that the amount was aside from the monies already generated by the agency through the applications and data leasing for the marginal oil fields applicants.
The DPR, he said, also got approval for the signature bonuses to be paid in either dollars or Naira to simplify the process for Nigerian companies and reduce strain on the nation’s foreign exchange reserve.
“Immediately after the payment of the signature bonuses and compliance with the farm out agreement and farm out demarcation area, we will issue the award and bring the companies together for them to arrange how to enter the fields.
”We hope to finish the entire programme before the end of Quarter one this year.
“Going forward, we will give about 90 days during which the Oil Mining License holders will have discussions, because no two fields are the same so that we allow these assets to be developed.
”We believe it will increase the reserves of this country as well as provide a lot of stimulants to the economy,” Mr Auwalu said.
He explained that the DPR had learnt from the mistakes made in previous marginal oilfield bid rounds, adding that the 2020 exercise would be devoid of such issues leading to lingering litigations and unproductivity.
The director said the agency had put measures in place to ensure that the awardees would be credible investors with technical and financial capability.
He said the DPR ensured due diligence on all the applications with the assistance of the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit, the Department of State Security and the Federal Inland Revenue Service.
Explaining the rationale behind the non-publishing of the names of the 161 successful applicants selected for the final stage of the exercise, Auwalu said such an action was premature.
“All of them will not be successful. When we are finished, I can assure Nigerians that all the names of the successful companies that will be awarded will be known by Nigerians,” he added.

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Bassey Udo is a Journalist, Communication & Media Practitioner PERSONAL DETAILS DATE OF BIRTH: March 3, 1965 GENDER: Male NATIONALITY: Nigerian GSM: +234 802 313 7335; 07032308000 EMAIL: bassey.udo@gmail.com CONTACT ADDRESS: Plot 743 Coral Park Street, Lugbe CRD, Abuja, FCT 900128 A multiple award winning investigative reporter with specialised interest in Business & Economy, Energy & Power, Oil, Gas, Mining & Extractive Industry, Environment & Climate Change, etc. at various times for some of Nigeria’s elite newspapers and magazines, including Post Express, NewsAfrica magazine, Independent, 234NEXT and Premium Times. A member of the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE), Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) and Society of International Law & Diplomacy (SILD). He is also a distinguished Alumnus of the U.S. International Visitors Leadership Programme (IVLP) 2017.

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