The Petroleum Act 1969 (as amended) grants powers to the Ministry of Petroleum, acting through the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) to administer the licensing of oil blocks in the country.

Lagos — NIYI AYOOLA-DANIELS ESQ examines critically, legal issues involved in OPL conversion to OML, with particular reference to the South Atlantic Petroleum case This article examines the legal ...

Optimum Petroleum Development Company Limited, OPDCL, has cleared the air on its dispute with Afren Investment Oil and Gas Nigeria Limited, and Lekoil 310 Limited, saying that the companies failed to ...

An investigation in Nigeria has turned into the country’s biggest corporate bribery case. Nine executives from Eni and Royal Dutch Shell, and Nigerian officials, face charges in Milan over how they ...

Sahara Group’s Up stream Company said it is making good progress with its activities in oil prospecting lease (OPL) 274, an asset it has a 100 per cent working interest. It is also pressing forward to ...