The Department of Petroleum Resources on Thursday declared that it had given a grace period of three months for all illegal filling stations and gas plants to regularise their facilities or face the full wrath of the law. It disclosed this in Abuja as the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and the DPR charged operators in the oil sector to abide by stipulated regulations as a sim...

Stakeholders in the oil and gas industry have described illegal artisanal refining in the country as a major source of pollution. The stakeholders, who spoke at the 18th Biennial International HSE Conference on the Oil and Gas Industry in Nigeria, recommended that the practice of burning crude oil recovered from illegal activities should be stopped forthwith. A communiqué, which wa...

Nigeria’s  Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has assured  the country that it’s equal to the task in discharging its responsibility as the regulator of the oil and gas industry in spite of the calls in some quarters that the agency should streamline its operations. A statement by Mr Paul Osu, the Head, Public Affairs of DPR reiterated that the agency remained a modern ...

Going back memory lane, it is recalled that the emergence of HSE conference was in response to a heightened environmental consciousness as well as global need for sustainable development. Interestingly, that same impetus that gave rise to the maiden edition has returned as the main focus of today’s 18th edition, namely, Sustainable Development, but with a slightly different twist, which ...

Amadasu Enorense, Assistant Director in charge of resource management, Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR),  in this interview with Mohammed Shosanya, spoke  on the agency’s National Production Monitoring System (NPMS) and other roles  in the nation’s oil and gas sector. Excerpts: What is National Production Monitoring System?. The  National Production Monitoring  System  is  an el...

The Federal Government on Monday said the 2019 target date for the stoppage of importation of refined petroleum products into the country was no longer feasible. Ibe Kachikwu, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, disclosed this at the opening ceremony of a three-day Biennial International Conference for Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) organised by Department of Petroleum Re...

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Kachikwu disclosed this at the 3-days Biennial International Conference for Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) organised by Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR)in Lagos on Monday. He told participants that “out of the 40 private licenses issued to private investors to build refineries, only 10 have showed signs of progression. “Out of the 40 licenses issued, only 10 have shown pr...