Under-dispensing: Marketers panic as NMDPRA begins crackdown on filling stations

Petroleum products marketers, retailers and depot owners are successful panic mode arsenic the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, NMDPRA, connected Thursday commenced a
nationwide crackdown connected filling stations under-dispensing refined petroleum products to customers.

This comes arsenic the NMDPRA connected Wednesday alerted manufacture stakeholders, including the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, IPMAN; Petroleum Products Retail Outlets Owners Association of Nigeria, PETROAN; Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria, MOMAN; and Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association of Nigeria, DAPPMAN, of its crackdown connected merchandise under-dispensing crossed filling stations nationwide.

In the notice, the NMDPRA threatened to revoke the licences of erring filling stations.

“Persistent oregon superior violations volition beryllium taxable to due sanctions, up to and including revocation of the outlet’s licence, successful enactment with NMDPRA’s regulations,” the announcement reads.

Following the NMDPRA’s alert, IPMAN and PETROAN directed their members to inspect and verify their petroleum merchandise dispensing meters.

The National President of PETROAN, Billy Gillis-Harry, portion speaking connected Channels Television connected Wednesday, said members had been told to cheque their meters arsenic rapidly arsenic imaginable to debar sanctions.

“We ...