The Department for Petroleum Resources (DPR), has sealed 53 filling stations and 4 gas stations in Kaduna state for various offences. Isa Tafida, Zonal Operations Controller, Kaduna Zone, disclosed this in Kaduna on Tuesday, during the department’s routine surveillance on filling and gas stations in Kaduna state. According to Tafida, the exercise which took place in the month of Ju...

The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has opened an office in Awka and warned operators in the oil and gas (downstream) in Anambra to play by the rules or face sanctions The Operations Controller at the DPR office in Awka Mr. Ignatius Anyanwu said in an interview that the agency had commenced full operations in the state. He said the office was created in the last quarter of ...

The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) endorses the Nigeria Annual International Conference and Exhibition (NAICE) of the Society of Petroleum Engineers Nigeria Council (SPENC). The 3 day event which commenced today, up untill Wednesday 7th August 2019 has brought together major decision makers, Captains of Industry and Professionals to discuss comtemporary Oil and Gas issues in ...

Director of Petroleum Resources, Mr. Ahmad Shakur during his visit of to DPR Zonal office, Port Harcourt as part of his duty tour to Zonal offices...

The Director of Petroleum Resources, Mr. Ahmad Shakur paid a pre-commissioning visit to the Niger Delta Petroleum Refinery Train 11 project as part of DPR's regulatory oversight of the oil and gas industry in Nigeria. The train 11 project is meant to scale up the refining capacity of the marginal field operator from its current one thousand barrels per day to six thousand barrels per ...

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...