The Ag. Director of Petroleum Resources (DPR) Mr. Ahmad Rufai Shakur, has inaugurated a committee at the DPR Head Office Lagos today. The membership is drawn from the private sector, academia and industry professionals who are expected to review and develope a framework for decommissioning requirements in Nigerià. The committee is to be chaired by Mr. Enorense Amadasu (Deputy Director...

The real owners of oil assets and firms in Nigeria will, for the first time in 61 years of oil production in the country, be unearthed. The framework for the disclosure and publication of owners of companies in Nigeria’s oil and gas industry, the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) said at the weekend, had reached 80 per cent completion. The framework is being handled by a joint co...

The latest progress recorded by Nigeria in the transparency ranking for its oil and gas industry was buoyed by improved regulation by the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR). Executive Secretary, Nigeria Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (NEITI), Waziri Adio, who stated this during an official visit of Executive Secretary, Global Headquarters, Extractive Industry Trans...

The Department of Petroleum Resource (DPR) has assured Nigerians of adequate supply of products across the country before, during and after the yuletide season. Acting Director of Operations, Abuja Zonal Office, Alhaji Idris Mohammed, disclosed this in Abuja on Sunday. “You can be rest assured that we cannot encounter the problem of scarcity during the yuletide season. “The Nige...

The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative and the Department of Petroleum Resources are collaborating to produce a register of beneficial owners of oil and gas firms in the country by January 1, 2020. The acting Director, DPR, Mr Ahmad Shakur, said the beneficial ownership register was more than 85 per cent complete. He disclosed this during a visit by the Executive...

The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Warri Zonal Office, says it has sanctioned three petrol stations and two gas plants over alleged sharp practices in Delta. Mr Antai Asuquo, Warri Zonal Operations Controller of DPR, represented by Mr Victor Ohwodiosa, the Manager, Gas Section of the DPR, made this known to newsmen on Wednesday shortly after the regulatory agency’s routine e...

The Owerri Zonal Office Laboratory is to serve the South-East Zone in the Regulatory analysis and ascertain the status /components of petroleum products in that region....

The Executive Director Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) Mr. Mark Robinson, accompanied by his Nigerian counterpart and Executive Secretary, Mr. Waziri Adio, Country Manager Anglophone EITI, Mrs. Murjanatu Gamawa and Delegation were received by DPR Top Management today at the DPR Head office Lagos. The DPR team led by Dr. Musa Zagi (Deputy Director HSE) welcomed the d...

Director of Petroleum Resources, Mr. Ahmad Shakur leading other management staff of DPR at the on going National Production Monitoring System (NPMS)/ Crude Oil and LNG Tracking (COLT) Project review meeting to maximise government's investment and determine look ahead....