The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), said it will open an office in Yobe to effectively monitor activities of marketers, after sealing one petrol station for malpractice and poor environment. Mr Idris Zoaka, North East Zonal Operations Controller  stated this in Damaturu on Thursday during a sensitization and inspection  tour of petrol stations in the state.According to the co...

The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) on Wednesday says it has sealed one filling station and nine pumps in Maiduguri, for various infractions. The DPR Zonal Operations Controller, North East zone, Mr Ali Zaoka, made the disclosure during the routine surveillance and sensitisation exercise in Maiduguri. Zaoka disclosed that a filling station, Mala Sheriff Petroleum Company, w...

To reduced frequent petroleum trucks accident on Nigeria road, the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has scheduled a stakeholders forum in ensuring a effective collaboration with all stakeholders towards  safe petroleum products transportation system across the country and to also proffer solutions to frequent truck accidents. Mr Oluwole Akinyosoye, the Zonal Operations Controll...

The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) in Bayelsa says it has sealed ten petrol stations and an illegal liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) station in Yenagoa for expired licences and lack of basic operational equipment. The DPR on Wednesday, with a team of its officials, led by Mr Ibinabo Jack, Head of Operations in the state field office, paid unscheduled visit to some retail petrol ...

The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has warned filing stations against hoarding of petrol and selling above official price in Osun. DPR’s Operations Controller in Osogbo, Mr Ademola Makinde, gave the warning during a visit by the management team of the department to the palace of Oba Akinola Akinrera, in Ifetedo, Osun. Makinde, who noted that the warning became necessary as...

Happening Now: Mr Hassan Umar Hadejia , Chief System Analyst, E&S making a Presentation on National Production Monitoring System (NPMS)/Crude oil and LNG Tracking (COLT) at the ongoing AGORA NEXUS Roundtable session in Lagos....

Stakeholders have raised the alarm that Nigeria’s external reserves currently at $43.67 billion may further be depleted on account of some ill-equipped laboratories servicing its oil and gas industry. Their unpatriotic act according to experts has compelled the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) to, in some instances, ferry samples abroad for analytical tests . They warned tha...

The Department of Petroleum Resources has said it is committed to working with all stakeholders to drive and enhance good laboratory practice in the nation’s oil and gas industry. The acting Director, DPR, Alhaji Ahmad Shakur, said there was a need to begin to chart a definitive and sustainable path towards uncompromised and consistent quality of service and integrity of results. S...

The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has warned operators of oil and gas laboratory services to desist from compromising results of data analysis from their laboratories, uphold industry ethical standard and global best practices. Its Acting Director, Alhaji Shakur Rufai, gave the warning at the third Oil and Gas Industry Laboratory Stakeholders’ workshop  in Lagos with the the...