Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari is eyeing an increase to his country’s oil production to 2.2 million bpd , the volume it had pumped before militant attacks in the Niger Delta started crippling the country’s output and exports in early 2016. Presenting next year’s budget in Parliament, Buhari said he was willing to restore the 2.2-million-bpd production level—a statement that is probably cringeworthy for OPEC, who is hard-selling the cuts to the volatile markets, and who had exempted Nigeria from the collective cuts deal to curb its output to 32.5 million bpd, effective in January. “We must all come together” to see peace in the Niger Delta, Reuters quoted President Buhari as saying in Parliament. At the beginning of 2016, Nigeria’s oil production was some 2.1 million bpd, but scores of militant attacks on oil infrastructure in the delta has dragged down production, which was around 1.5 million bpd in […]