The rising number of COVID-19 cases among workers at Nigeria’s offshore oilfields and platforms is a growing threat to the country’s oil production, sources within the oil sector said. However, Nigeria, which failed to curb oil production quota in strict adherence with the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) agreement in an effort to ameliorate the glut in the interna...

The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has expressed concern over non-compliance to established protocols aimed at the containing COVID-19 pandemic by some oil and gas companies. The DPR, which is the regulator of the Nigerian oil and gas industry, made this known in a circular to the companies on the management of Coronavirus. A copy of the circular was sighted by TBI Africa ...

To:        All Oil & Gas Industry Operators RE: MANAGEMENT OF COVID-19 OUTBREAK – UPDATE 4 We wish to commend your efforts in implementing stringent measures to contain the spread of COVID-19 in your immediate environment and areas of operations in line with Government’s directives and circulars issued by the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR). In spite of these efforts, th...

The Department of Petroleum Resources Lagos Zonal office,( Gas Unit) in Collaboration with NSCDC during its surveillance visit arrested a  mobile Gas operator with a vehicle laden with 1MT LPG Tank with dispensing unit accessories and weight bridge used in dispensing same products within Isheri road, Berger, Lagos. Due to the high risk the vehicle posed to life and properties , the vehi...

The Director of Petroleum Resources, Engr. Sarki Auwalu has inaugurated the network code operationalisation teams for the full implementation of the Nigeria Gas Transportation Network Code (NGTNC) which was recently launched by the Honorable Minister of State Petroleum Resources with a six-month mandate to go live. The Director in his address at the virtual inauguration ceremony state...