There are no refineries in Nigeria – DPR – Ongoing reform will transform NNPC – Barkindo – Tribune
November 13, 2009 by Bunmi Awolusi · Comments Off
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has said that the state of the nation’s refineries is as good as having nothing, adding that capacity utilisation is currently 6.6 per cent.
The Director of DPR, Billy Agha, who said this at the agency’s quarterly press briefing in Lagos on Thursday, attributed the dismal performance of the refineries to the Niger Delta crisis during which petroleum pipelines were vandalised.
Govt denies fuel price hike, uncertainty lingers – The Guardian
November 2, 2009 by Bunmi Awolusi · Comments Off
Regulators of the petroleum industry yesterday reacted to the latest rumbling in the sector, which assumed a worrisome dimension at the weekend as long queues returned to filling stations across the country.
Deregulation: No option for now – DPR – Tribune
October 20, 2009 by Bunmi Awolusi · Comments Off
It seems the Federal Government has chosen to be playing hide and seek on its decision to fix a date for the commencement of the deregulation of the downstream sector of the nation’s petroleum industry, as the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has said that the best option to make petroleum products available to Nigerians is to deregulate the sector, saying without that, the citizenry would continue to suffer untold hardship.
DPR Doesn’t Know Nigeria’s Oil Output -NEITI – Daily Independent
September 8, 2009 by Bunmi Awolusi · Comments
The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) reiterated on Monday that the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) does not measure oil output, regardless of claims by Abuja that production has now risen to 1.7 million barrels per day (bpd).
