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Nigeria’s petroleum industry is the country’s largest industry. For decades until recently, it has been the mainstay of the economy and GDP generator in the continent’s most populous nation for the longest.

The British discovered oil in the Niger Delta in the late 1950s, Nigeria’s development has been SOLELY dependent on Oil  aka Black Gold . Delayed by politics  Security and economic maladies before , international attention saw a reform of the sector  in 1990 which has given us some of Africa’s wealthiest men.

How they Got These Blocks Is a Mystery  Mere Nigerians Can not Explain 

Where are they Sold  ? Who sells them Who owns them ? 

How many Nigerian Presidents Own Oil Blocks ?  

Does Dangote Have an Oil Block now he has a Multi Billion Dollar Refinery in Lagos ?

Dangote Africa’s Richest Man is not listed here as He is A new player in the Oil Business

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But here is The Sacred List Extremely Exclusive Club

Mohammed Indimi (Oriental Energy Resources)

Mohammed Indimi OFR is a Nigerian businessman and philanthropist. He is the founder and chairman of Oriental Energy Resources (OER), a privately held Nigerian oil exploration and production company. As of June 2021, his net worth was estimated at US$1.5 billion.

A close ally of prominent figures in the Nigerian military, Indimi founded and now chairs Oriental Energy Resources, an offshore oil exploration and production company.

It currently has three offshore oil and gas products, with daily production of 35,000 barrels. After over twenty years in the sector, Indimi has established himself as the 30th richest man in Africa, with a notable international presence.

Theophilus Danjuma (South Atlantic Petroleum)

Danjuma, 72, has a net worth of $600 million made through the 2006 sale for $1.7 billion of an oil block given by the regime of former Nigerian President Sani Abacha to a Chinese consortium. A former defence minister, Danjuma is chairman of oil exploration firm South Atlantic Petroleum.

He is also the country’s most prominent philanthropist, having endowed his charity, the TY Danjuma Foundation, with $100 million. He also advises President Goodluck Jonathan on state matters.

Alhaji Auwalu Abdullahi Rano (A.A Rano)

Alhaji Auwalu is the Chairman and CEO of A.A. Rano Nigeria Limited. His net worth is estimated to be worth $2 billion. He is an investor in the Nigeria oil industry from Northern Nigeria and is a top partner with Nigeria’s major petroleum industries like NNPC and NLNG. He owns over 100 petrol stations across Nigeria.

Prince Arthur Eze (Oranto Petroleum)

Prince Arthur Eze is the Chairman and CEO of Atlas Oranto Petroleum International Limited and holds positions on various other boards in different sectors across Nigeria. His company has secured significant upstream positions in frontier plays in Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Togo, Ivory Coast, Chad, Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea. He is also a notable philanthropist.

His company has various technical partners, from Roc Oil, Pioneer Natural Resources of the USA, Canoxy, Transworld of the USA, LukOil of Russia, Tetra, Noble, Kosmos Energy of the USA, Petronas of Malaysia, DNO of Norway, TransAtlantic Petroleum of the USA and Canada’s Nexen. He has been active behind the scenes on the political stage since the early 90s.

Mike Adenuga (Conoil Producing)

The 59-year-old Mike Adenuga is a reclusive tycoon, but Conoil Producing was the first Nigerian company to strike oil in commercial quantities in the early 1990s. It is now the country’s largest oil exploration firm, and Adenuga has a net worth of $4.3 billion. His other business interests include Globacom, the country’s second-largest mobile telecom operator.

Tonye Cole (Sahara Energy)

Cole is the Managing Director of Sahara Energy Resource Limited, which he co-founded in 1996 with his friends Tope Shonubi and Ade Odunsi.

Sahara Energy started as an oil and gas company whose core business at the time was the trading of excess fuel oil from the Port Harcourt and Warri refineries.

It later moved away from being a middleman to become an established trading house diversifying into storage depots and vessel ownership and building depots in Lagos, Onne and Abuja with a combined capacity of 55,000 metric tonnes and a fleet of five vessels moving products across West Africa.

Today, Sahara Energy is a significant employer of labour with a staff strength of just over 300 people.

Femi Otedola (African Petroleum/Zenon)

CEO of African Petroleum Plc (now Forte Oil Plc), Otedola appeared as one of only two Nigerians (the other was Aliko Dangote) to appear on the 2009 Forbes list of 793 dollar billionaires in the world, worth over $1.2 billion. Though his fortunes have slightly declined, he remains a hugely rich man with much influence in the Nigerian oil sector.

Until recently, he was also the owner of multi-billion naira indigenous oil giant Zenon. Zenon, directly run by Otedola, is the dominant force in the diesel business among oil marketing concerns. It supplies diesel to power the generating sets of most Nigerian industries and nearly all the major manufacturing firms in the country. These include Dangote Group, Cadbury, Coca-Cola, Nigerian Breweries, MTN, Unilever, Nestle, Guinness and others.

Tunde Folawiyo (Folawiyo Oil And Gas)

Folawiyo serves as the Managing Director of Yinka Folawiyo Power and holds directorships with various other firms across all sectors. He lives his life away from the limelight but is known to live in extreme luxury. He holds degrees from the London School of Economics and University College London.

Ifeanyi Ubah (Capital Oil)

Ifeanyi Ubah
A tycoon probably best known for taking out adverts on the front pages of major newspapers to herald the celebration of his 40th birthday, Ubah’s company, Capital Oil, is said to have the biggest and most modern depot in Nigeria.

With 28 loading bays, Capital is the only indigenous downstream player capable of pumping out 55 million litres of petroleum products each day.

ABC Orjiakor (Seplat Petroleum)

A trained surgeon, Orjiakor has worked in the oil and gas sector for over 25 years. At Seplat, he spears new business development and works on strategic stakeholder relationships.

He has his philanthropic foundation and has links with former Nigerian military president Ibrahim Babangida.

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The First Lady of Nigerian Oil

Folunrunsho Alakija Aka MFM  Mummy Foley Money  The Richest Woman in Nigeria

Folorunsho Alakija is ranked by Forbes as the richest woman in Nigeria with an estimated net worth of $1 billion as of 2020.

Folorunsho Alakija is vice chair of Famfa Oil, a Nigerian oil exploration company with a stake in Agbami Oilfield, a prolific offshore asset. Famfa Oil’s partners include Chevron and Petrobras. Alakija’s first company was a fashion label whose customers included the wife of former Nigerian president Ibrahim Babangida.


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