Nigeria’s petrol imports surged 207% in June 2026 to 18.1 million liters per day as domestic PMS supply fell 22%, NMDPRA data shows.
Nigeria’s petrol importation surged by 207 percent in June 2026, even as domestic premium motor spirit supply fell by 22 percent, according to the latest data released by the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority.
The development marked a sharp reversal from the pattern recorded at the beginning of the year when domestic refining was supplying the bulk of the country’s petrol requirements.
The NMDPRA’s June 2026 Fact Sheet showed that average daily PMS imports rose from 5.9 million liters in May to 18.1 million liters in June, a 12.2 million liter daily increase that represented a 206.8 percent month-on-month rise.
In contrast, domestic PMS receipts fell from 41.5 million liters per day in May to 32.5 million liters per day in June, representing a decline of 9 million liters or 21.7 percent.
Despite that fall, total PMS receipts rose by seven percent from 47.4 million liters per day in May to 50.6 million liters in June, “driven by a 207 percent surge in imports to 18.
1 million liters, even as domestic supply fell by 22 percent to 32.5 million liters per day,” the NMDPRA stated.
In January, domestic PMS supply stood at 40.1 million liters per day, accounting for about 61.8 percent of the country’s petrol supply, while imports averaged 24.8 million liters per day. February saw imports decline sharply to 3.
0 million liters per day, accounting for 9.3 percent of total supply, as domestic supply rose to 29.4 million liters per day. Imports remained relatively subdued through subsequent months before the sharp June reversal.
The June 2026 Fact Sheet also showed that crude oil supply to domestic refineries rose by 9.3 percent even as local PMS receipts declined. Domestic PMS receipts fell from 41.5 million liters per day in May to 32.
5 million litres per day. Crude oil receipts by domestic refineries, however, increased from 0.578 million barrels per day in May to 0.632 million barrels per day in June.
Higher crude deliveries alone did not translate into higher petrol receipts. PMS stock sufficiency rose from 16.2 days in May to 19.7 days in June, an increase of 3. 5 days or 21.6 percent.
At the beginning of 2026, the NMDPRA reported that PMS stock sufficiency had risen to 33 days in January, compared with 29.2 days in December 2025, but the stock position subsequently declined before recovering to 19.7 days in June.
Average daily PMS consumption also moved. The increase in consumption was, however, far smaller than the 207 per cent jump in petrol imports. The NMDPRA data showed consumption rose from 46.3 million liters per day in May to 47.
4 million liters per day in June, a 2.4 percent rise.
Beyond petrol, the June data captured notable movements across other petroleum products. The June data showed a dramatic increase in imported liquefied petroleum gas, popularly known as cooking gas. Imported LPG volumes rose from 0.
1 kilotonne per day in May to 1.5 kilotonnes per day in June. That represented an increase of 1,400 percent. Domestic LPG receipts fell from 4.0 kilotonnes per day to 3.
6 kilotonnes per day, a decline of 10 percent.
The domestic gas supply rose from 4.984 billion standard cubic feet per day in May to 5. 116 billion standard cubic feet per day in June, while diesel supply declined by 13.8 percent.
The NMDPRA noted that domestic daily receipts include DPRP gantry and all coastal evacuation receipts and that consumption data is based on volumes trucked out from all facilities into the domestic market.
Aviation turbine kerosene supply was also contracted. ATK receipts declined from 3.6 million liters per day in May to 2. 5 million liters per day in June, a fall of 30.6 percent. ATK consumption fell from 3.
1 million liters per day to 2.9 million liters per day, a 6.5 percent decline.
The increase in petrol stocks is significant against the background of the supply disruptions and price volatility that have characterized the downstream petroleum market since the removal of the petrol subsidy. The NMDPRA reported that domestic gas supply increased from 4.
984 billion standard cubic feet per day in May to 5. 116Bscf/d in June, an increase of 0.132Bscf/d, or 2.65 percent, with the authority noting that its domestic gas supply figure includes volumes supplied to Nigeria LNG Limited.
As gathered by Westtrybe, the January-to-June trend recorded in the NMDPRA fact sheet points to a petroleum supply structure that continued to shift between domestic refining and imports.
Nigeria’s petrol supply system entered July dependent on a combination of local output and imported PMS, with the 207 per cent June import surge confirming how quickly market balance can change when domestic receipts weaken.
