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Nigeria Grants License for Gas Production Offshore Lagos Nigeria’s Federal Government has renewed the licence for the Oil Mining Lease (OML) 13 for 20 years. The license covers the continuing
production of oil in the Aje field, located offshore Lagos. It automatically assents to the plans to monetize the natural gas reservoir in the field. Aje has produced an average of 3,000 BOPD in the last one year, but the volume has come from the small oil rim of a prospect that is otherwise a natural gas asset. And while the oil production continues, the block’s JV partner’s