The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) on Wednesday urged motorists to provide useful information to the department on oil marketers that were involved in sharp practice in the area.
Mrs Dorothy Bassey, Head, Public Affairs Unit of the department gave the advice during the launching of a book titled Protection of Property Rights in Discovered Petroleum Reservoir by Dr Joseph Olorunse in Lagos.
Bassey said that information was important so that official of the department could work on it, adding that deregulation of the sector did not allow for sharp practices.
She said that there so many filling stations in the country that the department cannot monitor at the same time, adding that the department would proceed to work after getting useful information that a filling station was under dispensing motorist.
“Most of the information from Nigerians are not useful, you can call DPR and tell us that a certain filling station is under dispersing without tell us the location.
“If the quality of petroleum that you are buying is not good, let us know, we will investigate the station but it is unfortunate that most of this information did not get to us,
“In order to simplify this, we have created three different centres to listen to complain from motorists to pass information to us,” she said.
Bassey commended the writer, who is a legal adviser to the department, adding that the book had identified the problem in oil and gas sector and proffered solutions to it.
Prof. Yinka Omorogbe, Director at the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Abuja, and the book reviewer said the book made an attempt to find solutions to legal issues in oil and gas sector.
“The book fills the needed gap and is a very important contribution to the growing of the petroleum industry in Nigeria.
“The author critically studied and analysed the legal regime relating to rule of capture and property rise in Nigeria, Canada and Australia,” she said.
Prof. Anthony Adegbulugbe, President, Professor of Energy Planning and Management, the Chairman of the occasion recommended the book for students in the university and operators in oil and gas sector.
Dr Joseph Olorunse, the Legal Adviser to DPR and the author of the book said that he wrote the book as a result of practical problems that arose during his work in DPR.
Mr Emmanuel Bekee, Director, Upstream Operation of DPR commended the author for writing the book.
Bekee said that the book was essential in the growth of petroleum and very useful to all and sundry
