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Home » Banks Downgrade Nigeria’s Downstream Oil Sector’s Credit Ratings, Flag N269bn Debts

Banks Downgrade Nigeria’s Downstream Oil Sector’s Credit Ratings, Flag N269bn Debts

by Joshua
October 18, 2020
in Uncategorized

The sum of N268.79 billion loans given by banks to the indigenous oil firms in Nigeria have been rated as non-performing.

A report by the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS) sighted by our correspondent indicated that the debts were recorded as of June, 2020.

The report added that the nation’s oil and gas sector saw its contribution to the economy tumble in Q2 to 8.93 per cent from 9.50 per cent in Q1 as it recorded negative growth.

The NBS said in August that the sector, which grew by 5.06 per cent in the first quarter, shrank by 6.63 per cent in the second quarter.

The recent collapse of global oil prices and demand on the back of the COVID-19 pandemic has continued to take a huge toll on operators in the nation’s oil industry, triggering job losses and suspension of projects.

Chevron Nigeria Limited said on Friday that it would slash its workforce by 25 per cent as it was reviewing its manpower requirements in the light of the changing business environment.

The oil major said it would continue to evaluate opportunities to improve capital efficiency and reduce operating costs.

Shell, in an update to the market last Wednesday, announced plans to cut up to 9,000 jobs globally by the end of 2022 as it adjusts to the COVID-19 price collapse.

The Anglo-Dutch oil giant said 1,500 people had agreed to take voluntary redundancy this year.

The international oil benchmark, Brent crude, had slumped to as low as $15.98 per barrel in April from $70 per barrel in January. It rose above $40 per barrel in recent months but fell to $39.27 per barrel last Friday.

With the crude oil market likely to remain depressed for the rest of 2020, some oil servicing companies in Nigeria may eventually go bankrupt, according to Agusto & Co.

The rating agency and research firm, in its 2020 oil and gas servicing industry report, said the Nigerian oil and gas servicing industry had recorded a substantial increase in the number of indigenous servicing companies in recent years.

It noted that several key projects in Nigeria had been suspended, adding that delays in sanctioning these projects would impact the nation’s oil and gas servicing industry’s near to medium-term performance.

“Owing to prevailing difficulties in the operating terrain, a number of operators in Nigeria including international and indigenous companies have slashed contractor rates by up to 50 per cent while capital budgets have been reviewed downwards by an average of 20 per cent,” it said.

The report said, “Agusto & Co. expects the crude oil market is likely to remain depressed for the rest of 2020. It expects a huge number of job losses, while some oil field servicing companies may eventually go bankrupt.

“Legacy debt obligations, coupled with a likely spike in the impairment of newly acquired debt, could lead to a massive deterioration in the financial condition of oil and gas servicing companies.”

The coronavirus-induced sharp fall in global oil prices has earlier posed a threat to the ability of oil and gas firms in the country to repay their debts to banks.

The Central Bank of Nigeria said in March that it had given all Deposit Money Banks leave to consider temporary and time-limited restructuring of the tenor and loan terms for businesses and households most affected by the COVID-19 outbreak, particularly those in the oil and gas, agriculture and manufacturing sectors.

A global credit rating agency, Moody’s Investors Service, said recently that banks in Nigeria would face weakening loan quality and foreign-currency liquidity as low oil prices and the pandemic weighed on the economy.

It said, “These new challenges add to existing headwinds from slow economic growth and rising regulatory costs.

“Banks’ exposure to the oil and gas industry is substantial, at around 27 per cent of total loans at the end of 2019, making the system susceptible to the oil price slump.”

 


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