Energy in Brief: 7 November 2026

The day's energy news in a few minutes.

Power

Ikeja Electric blamed Band A outages on 3 and 4 November on "grid instability". The Transmission Company of Nigeria disagreed. It says that on 1 and 2 November, 68 per cent of interruptions on feeders serving Ikeja Electric were load shedding because too little power was generated, 26 per cent came from the DisCo's side and 6 per cent from TCN's planned work. Read more. Confused about who does what? Our simple guide.

The WAPP North Core line, linking Nigeria with Niger, Benin, Togo and Burkina Faso, is more than 75 per cent complete, TCN says. Nigeria's 330kV section is still being built. Read more.

Lagos will hold its energy summit from 10 to 12 November, P.M. News reported, with metering, renewables and state control of power on the agenda. We have not yet seen the dates on a Lagos government page.

Gas and CNG

A disused State House petrol station in Karu, Abuja, reopened on Friday as a CNG station and conversion centre, paid for by Rolling Energy. The head of the Presidential CNG Initiative said it was about the programme's 106th station and that 2,000 more refuelling units have been ordered. Read more.

Nigeria's LNG deliveries rose about 30 per cent between January and October from a year earlier, BusinessDay reported, citing the International Energy Agency.

Cooking gas is still climbing. BusinessDay says Dangote's LPG gantry price rose to ₦1,000 a kg and five Lagos depots were at ₦1,450 on 5 November. Legit.ng's checks found up to ₦1,900 a kg, or ₦23,750 for 12.5kg, in Katsina-Ala, Benue. Earlier figures from Legit.ng put Dangote's gantry price differently, so treat the exact gantry figure with care.

Oil

Brent crude settled at $98.32 a barrel on Friday, up 3 cents, Bloomberg reported via Rigzone. Over the week it fell about 13 per cent, its biggest weekly drop since 2022.

NNPC's September report shows profit of ₦509 billion on revenue of ₦4.61 trillion, and output of 3.04 million barrels of oil equivalent a day, Nairametrics and Business Post reported. It also shows petrol was available at only 54 per cent of NNPC Retail stations.

NUPRC's 2025 annual report shows 215.09 billion cubic feet of gas was flared last year, 7.89 per cent of output, up from 7.61 per cent in 2024, BusinessDay reported.

A drillship has reached TotalEnergies' Akpo field, with drilling due to start on 13 November under a four-well contract. Read more.

Fuel

The regulator NMDPRA and the EFCC sealed a site in Ogun where oil sludge was heated into suspected diesel. Read more. Is cheap diesel safe?

Tanker drivers in the NUPENG union have been told to finish depot work by 6pm because of armed robbery and hijacking on the roads, Daily Trust reported. We have not seen the union's own statement or a start date. Loading in and around Lagos could slow.

Africa

South Africa cut diesel by more than R1 a litre from 4 November, helped by a temporary fuel tax cut. Read more.

Drone strikes on Sudan's power stations have pushed its grid towards collapse, AP reports. Read more.

Eni and its partners have started a 10-month drilling campaign for Coral North floating LNG off Mozambique, aiming to start up in 2028. A joint venture of Mozambique's national oil company and Saipem is doing the drilling.

Egypt has put off five of the 15 LNG cargoes due in November, with a cargo now costing over $100 million, an unnamed official told Egypt Daily News. The African Development Bank put $66 million into a 500 MW solar and battery plant in Qena that will sell power to aluminium maker EgyptAlum.