Senate has ordered the Department of Petroleum Resources to be tendering its daily report of all sales of the oil and gas production in the country. According to the Senate Committee on Petroleum, the records must be submitted to them every month.
Senator Tayo Alasoadura, the Chairman of the committee, said the data would give the upper chamber of the National Assembly an opportunity to have a deeper knowledge of activities in the petroleum sector, and that henceforth, the non-compliance of the government agency in providing their respective report as at when due must be properly addressed.
However, the Department of Petroleum Resources lamented that their efforts to launch an innovation that would enable it to monitor oil production, delivery to locations, as well as compliance with fuel prices by filling stations from its offices are being impeded by inadequate funding and workforce.
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