The Federal Government has set aside July 25 of every year as national diaspora day in recognition of the contributions of Nigerians in diaspora towards national development.

Mr. Kingsley Sundaye, Operations Controller DPR Eket Field Office and the New DPO for Eket A. Umar on a courtesy visit to the OPSCON....

The Department of Petroleum Resources has sealed 25 filling stations and four illegal gas skids in Edo State. A team of investigators led by DPR Operation Controller Mr. Maynard Oriaifo said the list of the affected filling stations had been forwarded to the Benin depot management to stop them from lifting products. Oriaifo said a number of those facilities were neither licensed nor h...

The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has sealed off nine erring fuel stations in Ondo and Ekiti states for various offences. Head of Operations, DPR, Ondo State, Anthony Onaji said the offences bordered on non-approval of gas skids from the agency and under-dispensing of the pumps, thus making consumers to pay more for smaller quantities. Onaji spoke with newsmen on Friday i...

The Federal Government, through the Department of Petroleum Resources, yesterday, said it will sanction any of the 48 crude oil producing companies in Nigeria that fails to submit its daily report on production and export to the National Production Monitoring System (NPMS) portal domiciled with the regulatory agency. NPMS is an online platform to accurately monitor national crude oil-pro...

The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) is currently organising a technical workshop at EKO Hotels & Suites Lagos, to sensitize operators in the Nigerian Oil and gas industry on the importance of compliance with the Federal Government's NATIONAL PRODUCTION MONITORING SYSTEM (NPMS). In his welcome remarks; the representative of the Head Upstream Monitoring and Regulations Divi...

The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Enugu Field Office has sealed five petrol stations in the state for adjusting their pumps to under deliver products to members of the public. The Operations Controller, Mr Okechukwu Okoro disclosed this on Tuesday in Enugu in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) after a routine monitoring exercise. Okoro said that the exercise ...

The Acting Director of Petroleum Resources, Mr. Ahmad Rufai Shakur has emphasised the Department's commitment to intensify it's regulatory and supervisory role for the oil and gas industry in Nigeria. Speaking at a media briefing at the DPR Head Office in Lagos today, the Acting Director informed the public that the DPR will not tolerate any acts of infractions by licensed operators i...