The attention of the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has been drawn to the activities of some fraudulent persons posing as agents of DPR by offering purported DPR recruitment forms for 2017-2018 with guidelines on how to fill and submit same to members of the public on some social media platforms. We wish to inform members of the public that DPR has never appointed any person or...

Our attention has been drawn to the publication in some national newspapers of Monday, 13th November, 2017 alleging that DPR failed to remit and diverted the sum of $950 million royalty payment to the Federation Account between  2011 – 2014. The publication claimed to draw its information from the outcome of the meeting of an Ad Hoc Committee on $17 Billion Stolen from Undeclared Crude O...

The Department of Petroleum Resources 3h recently played host to the newly elected executive members of Nigerian Association of LPG Marketers (NALPGAM) who were on a courtesy visit to the Department. The Director DPR represented by the Deputy Director and Head Engineering and Standards Division, Mr. Olumide Adeleke, received the visiting delegation led by the President of the associatio...

On 2nd November 2017, the DPR organised a DSO Stakeholders Forum at Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos with the theme “Solving the Challenges in the Domestic Gas Market Value Chain”. The focus of the forum was on sustaining gas supply to the domestic market to promote usage in Gas to Power (GTP), Gas-based Industries (GBI) and the commercial sub sector. In adherence to the pro...

The Director of Petroleum Resources, Mr. Mordecai Danteni Baba Ladan on Monday October 16, 2017 along with members of DPR’s top management, hosted members of the Federal House of Representatives Committee on Downstream Petroleum led by its chairman, Hon. Akinlaja Joseph. The Law makers were in the DPR as part of their visit to Lagos state to engage the state government and other stakeho...

Members of the standing committee on the implementation of a harmonized standard operating procedure (SOP) on arrest, detention and prosecution of vessels and persons in Nigeria’s maritime environment recently paid a courtesy visit to the Department of Petroleum Resources to reaffirm their commitment to stakeholder engagement, a working cooperation and collaboration with the DPR in stand...

The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) hosted executives in the banking sector to an interactive session facilitated by the Strategy & Performance Evaluation Unit at the DPR headquarters in Lagos, on Thursday September 14th, 2017 as a follow-up to the previous engagement with the banks, to apprise them on the soon to be launched electronic Petroleum Products Import and Export Pe...

DISCLAIMER The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) wishes to draw the attention of the public to the existence of a Facebook account purportedly belonging to the Director of Petroleum Resources Mr. Mordecai Danteni Ladan. The DPR is by this disclaimer notice informing the public that the Facebook account does not belong to or have any link with Mr. Mordecai Danteni Ladan in his pers...