{"id":299,"date":"2024-07-15T14:45:23","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T14:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vindicatorslnews.com\/?p=299"},"modified":"2024-07-15T14:45:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T14:45:26","slug":"bio-receives-annual-report-from-petroleum-regulatory-agency-calls-for-further-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vindicatorslnews.com\/?p=299","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Bio Receives Annual Report from Petroleum Regulatory Agency, Calls for Further Reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Friday 12 July 2024 &#8211; His Excellency President Dr. Julius Maada Bio received the annual report from the Petroleum Regulatory Agency (PRA) and called for additional reforms to enhance the sector&#8217;s performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Executive Chairman of PRA, Brima Baluwa Koroma, presented the report, highlighting the agency&#8217;s responsibilities, achievements, challenges, and plans. He noted that the PRA had implemented various reforms based on previous directives from the President, resulting in a 128% increase in revenue and a 52% growth in the importation of petroleum products. Despite a national storage target of 500,000 metric tons, the current capacity stands at approximately 230,000 metric tons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Koroma dedicated the agency\u2019s successes to President Bio and praised the staff for their dedicated service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Bio thanked the PRA team for their efforts and emphasized the sector&#8217;s sensitivity and its impact on every individual. He commended the review of the pricing formula and the increased storage capacity, highlighting the sector&#8217;s revenue growth as a positive development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I am proud that we have an open sector now and I want to challenge you to do more reforms and create an open playing field for more players in the sector,&#8221; President Bio concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday 12 July 2024 &#8211; His Excellency President Dr. Julius Maada Bio received the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goverment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vindicatorslnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vindicatorslnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vindicatorslnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vindicatorslnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vindicatorslnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vindicatorslnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301,"href":"https:\/\/vindicatorslnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions\/301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vindicatorslnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vindicatorslnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vindicatorslnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vindicatorslnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}