The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Eastern zone has fined one filling station appropriately in Owerri metropolis, capital of Imo State for under dispensing premium motor spirit (PMS). Five others were cautioned for selling above government regulated pump price of N145 per litre. The renewed aggressive surveillance which was in response to a directive from the Director of DPR t...

The Director of Petroleum Resources DPR, Mr. Mordecai Dabteni Baba Ladan, accompanied the entire Top Management Committee (TMC) of the Department to the maiden edition of the Nigerian International Petroleum Summit which took place at the Abuja International Conference Center from the 19th - 22nd of February, 2018.   Photographs taken at the DPR Exhibition Booth,where the Director &a...

DPR Task force led by the Zonal Operations Controller Lagos (Mr. Wole Akinyosoye) on surveillance of Depots and Jetties in Lagos for Petroleum distribution across the country. #dpr #petroleum #depots  ...

Today, the Honorable Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Emmanuel I. Kachikwu met with the President of the Republic of Niger, Mahamadou Issoufou and the Energy Minister of the Republic of Niger, Mr. Foumakoye Gado. A mutually beneficial agreement was reached for the construction of a refinery in the border town between the Republic of Niger and Katsina State, Nigeria and a c...

The Director, Mr. M. D. B Ladan, hosted Mr Colin Klappa the new Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Addax Petroleum Development (Nig) Ltd and Mrs Dorothy Atake GM, External Affairs at the Department of Petroleum Resources on a courtesy visit....

The attention of the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has been drawn to the activities of some fraudulent persons posing as agents of DPR by offering purported DPR recruitment forms for 2017-2018 with guidelines on how to fill and submit same to members of the public on some social media platforms. We wish to inform members of the public that DPR has never appointed any person or...

Our attention has been drawn to the publication in some national newspapers of Monday, 13th November, 2017 alleging that DPR failed to remit and diverted the sum of $950 million royalty payment to the Federation Account between  2011 – 2014. The publication claimed to draw its information from the outcome of the meeting of an Ad Hoc Committee on $17 Billion Stolen from Undeclared Crude O...

The Department of Petroleum Resources 3h recently played host to the newly elected executive members of Nigerian Association of LPG Marketers (NALPGAM) who were on a courtesy visit to the Department. The Director DPR represented by the Deputy Director and Head Engineering and Standards Division, Mr. Olumide Adeleke, received the visiting delegation led by the President of the associatio...

On 2nd November 2017, the DPR organised a DSO Stakeholders Forum at Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos with the theme “Solving the Challenges in the Domestic Gas Market Value Chain”. The focus of the forum was on sustaining gas supply to the domestic market to promote usage in Gas to Power (GTP), Gas-based Industries (GBI) and the commercial sub sector. In adherence to the pro...