Despite Covid-19 challenges, Nigeria’s petroleum industry made progress in 2020 The Covid-19 pandemic and other economic challenges did not distract the petroleum resources ministry from its reform agenda 12 min read When President Muhammadu Buhari appointed Timipre Sylva, a former governor of Bayelsa State, as Minister of State for Petroleum Resources in late 2019, the country’s petroleum industry was in a deplorable state. Daily oil production had fallen from 2.3 million barrels projected in the year’s budget to about 1.81 million barrels and high production cost was a...