The Bauchi office of the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has embarked on a one-week sensitisation tour of filling stations and existing Liquefied Petroleum Gas plants (LPGs) on strict adherence to safety measures during the harmattan season. Malam Abdullahi Iliyasu, the operation controller of the department, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN...

The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has called on users and sellers of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), otherwise known as cooking gas, to strictly  adhere to safety rules in the light of the harmattan season. Mr Musa Zarumai-Tambuwal, the DPR Operations Controller in charge of Sokoto and Kebbi states, gave the warning while speaking to newsmen on Wednesday, in Sokoto. Zaruma...

The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) says 161 successful companies have been shortlisted to advance to the next and final stage of the bid round process for 57 marginal oilfields in the country. Mr Paul Osu, Head, Public Affairs, DPR, disclosed on Thursday in Lagos  that the firms were selected from the over 600 companies which applied for pre-qualification. Marginal field i...

Director, Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Sarki Auwalu, has said Nigerian indigenous oil companies are now taking the centre stage, in expanding domestic refining, domgas supply and gas-based industrialisation, which is a gradual departure from the export-centric companies. Auwalu made the assertion at the Nigeria Oil and Gas (NOG) virtual conference, in a statement issued, by ...

Compliments of the season and best wishes from all of us at DPR

The Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, has assured Nigerians of the availability of  petroleum products during the Yuletide. Mr Paul Osu, Head, Public Affairs, of the DPR, gave the assurance in a statement issued on Tuesday in Lagos. Osu said that there was product sufficiency nationwide and advised marketers against hoarding and creating artificial scarcity. He said DPR w...

 The Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Mr Sarki Auwalu, has won the 2020 Distinguished Energy Sector Corporate award. The award was conferred on him by the Nigerian Association of Energy Economics (NAEE) at the dinner to mark its 13th annual international conference in Abuja. Prof. Yinka Omorogbe, NAEE President, said that the DPR ...

The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Osogbo Field Office, has warned residents of the state against panic buying, hoarding and storing of petroleum products at home during the Yuletide period. Mr Benjamin Ogunnubi, the DPR Operations Controller in Osun, gave the warning on Thursday in Osogbo. Ogunnubi said there was no cause for panic buying, as the Federal Government had m...

The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has shut down a filling station for dispensing adulterated products and seven unlicensed Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) refilling plants in Rivers State. Zonal Controller, DPR, Port Harcourt Zonal Office, Bassey Nkanga, confirmed the development at the end of a two-day stakeholders’ meeting in Port-Hacourt with petrol and gas station owners i...