The Nation’s Petroleum Regulatory Agency, the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has introduced digital solution to its downstream operations – Automated Downstream System (ADS). The ADS is the migration of all licences and permits in downstream operations to digital platform, The Guardian reports.
The affected licences and permits includes the Import/Export permit (IMPEX) for petroleum product, Retail Outlet Monitoring (ROM) licence, Coastal Vessel Licence (CVL), Lube Plant licence (LBL), Depot Licence (DL) and Refining Plant Licence (RPL). The digitalisation initiative is to facilitate the ease of doing business in the petroleum sector to stimulate economic growth in line with government policy thrust.
The application, which is currently online is in line with the vision of DPR Director, Modeccai Danteni Baba Ladan to embark on massive digitalisation of DPR work processes to improve operational efficiency and provide effective regulation of the oil and gas sector in alignment with governments recently signed executive order 001 “ease of doing business’ and upgrade the DPR’s operational standards to world class levels.
Head, Public Affairs, Paul Osu in a statement on Wednesday, said with the newly introduced digital platform, applicants for the various licences do not have to go through the paper based old manual system which is cumbersome and time consuming. He added that the ADS portal is integrated into the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) payment gateway-REMITA for online payment in compliance with government Treasury Single Account (TSA) policy.
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