Nigeria shipped crude oil worth $2.57bn to the United States between January and August 2025, making it the single largest African supplier of crude to the American market within the period, based on new US Census Bureau import data.
An analysis of data from the US International Trade in Goods and Services report shows that Nigeria’s oil cargoes accounted for more than half of all African crude oil received by the US in the first eight months of the year.
The landing value of Nigeria’s crude, captured under the Cost, Insurance and Freight metric, placed it far ahead of Angola, Libya, Ghana, and other African suppliers. The figures show that the US imported a total African crude CIF value of $4.67bn over the eight-month period.
Nigeria’s $2.57bn, therefore, represents 55 per cent of all African oil barrels arriving at American ports. No other African country came close to this level of contribution to the US crude supply. Nigeria also supplied the largest volume of crude oil from the continent, with American refiners taking in 33.23 million barrels from January to August 2025.
