The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), on Monday, sealed off two fuel stations and one gas station in Lokoja, the Kogi capital, for various alleged infractions. A correspondent  who monitored the exercise, reports that the filling stations, Emmaliz Nigeria Limited and Always Petroleum Limited, were sealed off for allegedly under-dispensing petroleum products to motorists. Whi...

The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has advised motorists in Anambra not to engage in panic buying of petroleum products in the state. Mr Ignatius Anyanwu, Operations Controller of DPR, Awka Area office gave the advice in an interview with newsmen in Awka on Thursday. Anyanwu said there was enough supply to the state that would serve during the Christmas, New Year and beyon...

Forty illegal gas plants have in the month of December, 2019 been sealed in Akwa Ibom State by the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Eket Field Office over unsafe practices. The Operations Controller of DPR in the state, Mr. Tamunoiminabo Kingsley-Sundaye disclosed this during a sensitisation workshop for downstream operators (White product and Liquidified Petroleum Gas handlers) ...

Ibrahim Ciroma, Adamawa state operations controller of the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), says the number of trucks entering Adamawa on a daily basis has reduced from 100 to between 30 and 40.  Ciroma said this while on an inspection tour of villages in Bele, Maiha local government area and Gurin in Fufore local government area of the state.  He said closure had ended fue...

The hall was full to its capacity and the venue was Etsu NUPE International Centre, Doko International Hotel, Minna- Niger State. The theme of the AGM was Safe Operations and Regulatory Compliance in the Oil and Gas Industry. In his address, the Operations Controller, Minna Field Office, Engr. Abdullahi Isah Jankara thanked all the participants for honouring our invitation. He reitera...

The Department of Petroleum Resource (DPR) has launched its new guidelines of operations for the upstream sector of the Nigerian oil and gas industry. The regulatory document is part of efforts geared towards limiting the cost of oil production in the country by five per cent, as demanded by the federal government and to make companies focus more on exploration. The new guidelines ...

The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) on Wednesday sealed off four Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) plants, over non-compliance and illegal operations in Lagos. Officers of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), which collaborated with the DPR in the exercise, also arrested three employees of the sealed LPG — also known as cooking gas — plants. The gas stations ...

The President of the federal Republic of Nigeria, Mohammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Engineer Sarki Auwalu as the substantive Director of the Department Petroleum Resources. Engr. Sarki is a chemical engineer and he joined the services of DPR in 1998 as a Principal chemical engineer. He is a graduate of Ahmadu Bello University Zaria and had his post graduate at Bayero...