The Nation’s Petroleum Regulatory Agency, the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has introduced digital solution to its downstream operations – Automated Downstream System (ADS). The ADS is the migration of all licences and permits in downstream operations to digital platform. The affected licences and permits includes the Import/Export permit (IMPEX) for petroleum product, Retail ...

The head of the Public Affairs Unit (PAU) of the DPR, Mr. Paul Osu in company of the entire Public Affairs team, welcomed the new Executive of the National Association of Energy Correspondents (NAEC) on behalf of the Director of Petroleum Resources. The five-man delegation led by its new Chairman, Mr. Olatunde Dodondawa (Energy Editor for the Tribune Newspaper), used the visit to discus...

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Since it was transferred from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to the Ministry of Petroleum Resources as its technical arm and renamed the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) 30 years ago, issuance of licences, permits and renewals have been bedevilled with bureaucratic bottlenecks. The attendant effects have been delay in fuel imports, rig processing, construction ...

In a bid to carry out her mandate to monitor, enforce and discipline erring filling stations, the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) in Imo State is not leaving any stone unturned in ensuring that motorists and residents in the state procure the premium motor spirit (PMS) at government approved prices of N145 per litre. The department has severally supervised the selling of the pro...

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...