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Top 25 Petroleum companies based in Nigeria
RevenueBase identified 176 petroleum companies headquartered in Nigeria as of September 2026 and tracks 5,085 professional contacts across them, including 1,095 with verified work emails. Lagos is the largest hub.
This list covers petroleum companies headquartered in Nigeria, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 21, 2026.
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The 25 largest petroleum companies based in Nigeria
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 675 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Ardova PLC is an integrated energy company engaged in the marketing of petroleum products directed at the automobile, industrial, aviation, and marine markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 603 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Rainoil Limited is an integrated energy company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 283 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “OVH Energy is the company behind the Oando retail brand in Nigeria.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 271 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ETERNA PLC is an integrated energy company committed to providing efficient and innovative energy solutions to Retail, Industrial, Automotive, Marine, Aviation and Energy…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 250 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Masters Energy Oil & Gas Limited is licensed by Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), published by Nipex and endorsed by NAPIMS – NNPC for Joint Ventures (JVs) and Production…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 181 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Northwest Petroleum & Gas Company Limited is a Company in the Oil & Gas Sector of the economy with international repute.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 161 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Pinnacle is an Indigenous Oil and Gas Company active across the entire downstream value chain, with emphasis on the petroleum trading, marketing, distribution and retail segments…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 142 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Stockgap Fuels Limited is a key player in the oil and gas downstream sector of the Nigerian economy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 121 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Techno oil is a privately held, wholly indigenous company which today holds a diverse portfolio of prime investment in oil and gas, energy, infrastructure and manufacturing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 120 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ringardas Nigeria Limited is a private limited liability company incorporated under the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on 22nd November, 2005.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 115 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “AYM Shafa Holdings Limited is a highly-diversified Group offering innovative and quality services to customers in the entire petroleum marketing and distribution value chain.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 64 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Chrome Group is a leading multi-billion dollar conglomerate, based in Abuja, Nigeria.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 59 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Our global economy could not function without the oil and gas industry enabling it to extract and refine petroleum.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Eroton is a major player in the upstream segment of the Oil and Gas sector in Nigeria.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “In the downstream sector, we source, import, trade and distribute Petroleum Products.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Pacegate Energy & Resources Limited (PEARL) established in 2020 is a leading indigenous provider of fluids and chemical solutions catering to the oil and gas, refineries…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cybernetics International Services Limited is an oil & energy company based in Nigeria.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Emadeb Energy Services Limited (EESL), distributors of petroleum products and related services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are a foremost independent petroleum product marketing company with deep penetration in procurement, sales and marketing, storage and distribution of petroleum products.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Funtay Group is a Nigerian Oil and Gas company involved in the entire value chain of the Oil & Gas industry, from Upstream to Downstream to Gas and Power.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bond Global Energy Projects Limited is positioned to be the leading indigenous energy solution provider in Africa; by efficiently delivering high quality products and services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Seven Oceans Oil and Gas is a Nigerian Owned Oil and Gas firm engaged in the marketing of petroleum products in Nigeria and foreign markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Zone 4 Energy Limited is an indigenous oil & gas company providing products and services across the downstream value chain.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “vessels on lease with nnpc of nigeria” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: petroleum companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names petroleum companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of petroleum companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name petroleum companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Petroleum companies based in Nigeria at a glance
As of Sep 21, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Nigeria, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Nigeria, over 176 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among petroleum companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Nigeria whose own description of what they do matches “petroleum companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names petroleum companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among petroleum companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Nigeria are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,095 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 21, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Petroleum companies by metro
- Petroleum companies in Lagos46
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names petroleum companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many petroleum companies are there based in Nigeria?
RevenueBase identified 176 petroleum companies headquartered in Nigeria as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Ardova PLC, headquartered in Ijora, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most petroleum companies?
Lagos leads with 46 headquartered companies, followed by Lagos State (21) and Port Harcourt (14).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 1,095 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 176 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 21, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.