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FG- Imo: :Regulatory Oversight of The State Electricity Market Is Now Underr ISERC

By Favour Ifeoluwa & Akinola Ajibade  The Federal Government yesterday( Monday) announced the transfer of Regulatory Oversight of the Electricity Market in Imo State to the state electricity regulatory commission, otherwise known as (ISERC). In a statement issued by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Common( NERC), the development is in compliance with the amended Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (CFRN) and the Electricity Act 2023 (Amended), reiterating that all transfers envisaged by this order shall be completed by 31 December 2024. According to the Commission,the transfer Order’s provisions include: “Direct Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) to incorporate a subsidiary (EEDC SubCo) to assume responsibilities for intrastate supply and distribution of electricity in Imo State from EEDC, and that EEDC shall complete the incorporation of EEDC SubCo within 60 days from 27th June 2024. The subcompany shall apply for and obtain licence for the in

Sinking spare capacity will send oil prices higher

By Akinola Ajibade


Prices of crude oil are going increase, in the event that the world spare capacity sinks further.

Already, expectations are high among producers of crudes that the prices the prices which stood rose to between $119 a barrel to $120 a barrel early in the week.

The News Mirror findings reveal that few countries across Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Country ( OPEC+) can actually boost their oil production in a palpable way. 

Worse still is that the spare combined capacity of these countries to keep is falling and this if  continues, would shoot up the prices of oil in the international market.

Conservative estimates, cited by Reuters, show that OPEC’s spare production capacity could slip below 1 million barrels daily by the end of this year. This is equal to less than 1 percent of global demand.

Also, the Energy International Agency ( EIA) corroborated this, saying that siituation looks a lot better, with OPEC’s spare capacity at around 3 million bpd right now.

And according to Energy Aspects, the spare capacity of the extended OPEC+ group is about 1 percent of global daily demand, which is currently at around 102 million barrels.

This is not a whole lot of oil production that can be tapped within 30 days, per the definition of spare capacity by the U.S. Energy Information Administration. And if an outage happens somewhere in the world, it will become painfully clear exactly how little this is.

 One energy analyst put it succinctly after OPEC+ announced the new production target.

“Saudi has to make a choice — do we let the price go higher while maintaining a super emergency, super crisis level of spare capacity?” Paul Sankey from Sankey Research told CNBC last week. “Or do we add oil into the market and go to effectively almost zero spare capacity, and then what happens if Libya goes down?”

Given that Libya “goes down” on average once a quarter and sometimes for an extended period of time and given that hurricane season is beginning in the Gulf of Mexico, the picture becomes even grimmer.

In previous years, hurricane season has taken offline the bulk of U.S. offshore oil production, which in turn accounts for 15 percent of total U.S. oil production. The bullish factors for oil seem to be just piling up.

“Saudi Arabia will be producing (about) 11 million bpd by the end of summer, and real spare capacity globally which can be brought online fairly quickly will be standing at just 1.5% of global demand,” Barclays said in note, in which the bank raised its forecast for Brent crude by $11 per barrel for this year and by $23 per barrel for next year, Reuters reported this week.

If this happens, Saudi will be near its spare capacity limit: it has never produced 11 million bpd for an extended period of time, Reuters noted in the report. It probably won’t do it now, either—see the choice outlined above by Sankey.

In fact, according to other forecasts, OPEC+ will go nowhere near its new target: JP Morgan sees actual output additions at 160,000 bpd in July and 170,000 bpd in August. Leaving geopolitics aside, although geopolitical considerations have a big part to play in OPEC+’s policies, there is simply not enough spare production capacity to make that production boost work.

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