Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR said it would sanction oil producing companies that failed to unload its oil production data into the official platform.
Acting Director Ahmad Shakur gave the warning at the sensitization workshop organised by DPR on National Production Monitoring System, NPSM for oil and gas operator’s compliance officers in Lagos.
About 75 compliance officers of oil and gas operators were in attendance at the workshop centered on NPMS, a web-based oil, and gas production accounting, and monitoring platform.
Shakur, represented by Akpomudjere Okiemute, Assistant Director, management branch of upstream of DPR said the purpose of the engagement is to ensure full compliance to production and export data upload into the official platform. He said that such collective platform would deepen stakeholders understanding of the operations and relevance of NPMS to the nation.
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According to him, oil and gas account for about 90 percent of Nigeria’s revenue, it is, therefore, essential that the national government, through the DPR, have a firm grip on oil and gas production, transfer to terminal and exports.
“The NPMS is a web-based platform that provides rapid and efficient electronic data collection database and reporting system, which is envisaged to replace the paper-based reporting”.
“The NPMS project implementation includes two pilot exercise where the DPR collected real-time data at source (one land-based terminal and one Floating Production Storage and Offloading”.
“The pilot established that independent real-time monitoring improved the quality of surveillance which enabled national rollout to all other terminals during the project implementation phase. The system was also proven to facilitate surveillance, production reporting, and forecasting,’’ he said.
Shakur said NPMS provides an online platform to effectively monitor national crude oil and gas production and exports, adding that it also improves the consistency and quality of the database.
He said the NPMS is also a provision of a system for acquisition of Production data from oil and gas facilities in Nigeria to ensure timely and accurate reporting of production figure and export data.
The Director explained that the NPMS benefit includes facilitating production surveillance, production data analysis, and forecasting, adding it also, create more efficient and robust surveillance of the nation’s oil and gas production and export capabilities.
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According to him, the platform gives potential investors to Nigeria petroleum industry high confidence and assurance to invest in the industry which operates in transparent mode, adding that it also makes the country gain from increased Foreign Direct Investments, FDI and its inherent micro and macro-economic benefits.
Shakur explained that it is expected that all oil-producing companies are statutorily required to submit producing data through the portal to enable the department to effect a comprehensive real-time reporting of the nation’s daily production status to the government.
He added that companies are also required to obtain hardware USB security key (dongle key) which enables data submission to the platform, adding that companies will submit their daily production report, monthly report on production wells, well test report, lifting reports, daily associated gas and non-gas associated production reports, terminal reports, etc.
