In August 2001, Inter Press Service reported that long fuel queues had disappeared from filling stations across much of Nigeria. At one Abuja station, an attendant waved motorists toward pumps selling at the official price of 22 naira per litre. The preceding crisis had been severe: during the 1993–98 military era, motorists sometimes waited up to five days for a few litres, while corrupt attendants sold fuel at two to five times the official price. Nigeria ranked sixth globally in crude reserves and had four refineries with combined capacity of 445,000 barrels a day, yet only 25.3 million of 80.8 million barrels produced in the first three quarters of 2000 were refined domestically. Crude was exported and refined fuel imported. The vanished queue was evidence not that demand disappeared, but that regular supply at the posted price had temporarily returned.