Nigeria and Angola struggle to reverse quota failures
The inability of Opec+ to meet its increased production target is due in part to significant shortfalls from the two African suppliers
Nigeria’s and Angola’s oil output is likely, for differing reasons, to continue to fall short of Opec+ quotas in 2022 and might continue to underperform in coming years. “Nigerian production had a bad year in 2021,” says Richard Bronze, head of geopolitics at consultancy Energy Aspects, due “to a combination of various technical issues and disruptions as well as a general backdrop of insufficient investment to sustain capacity”. Many of Nigeria’s most prominent crudes were impacted by technical or operational problems, particularly in the second half of the year. Most of these issues are temporary and can be fixed, says Gail Anderson, research director at consultancy Wood Mackenzie. But “in

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