Dubai Petroleum Trading Committee Targets 2027 for Digital Permits, With Violations to Be Issued From Second Quarter

The Committee for Regulating the Trading of Petroleum Products in Dubai, part of the Dubai Supreme Council of Energy, reviewed the plans at a meeting chaired by Ahmed Butti Al Muhairbi, the council's secretary general. The next phase of its work will focus on developing the committee's online platform and connecting it to committee members and to the government's Dubai 360 platform.

The rules come from Executive Council Resolution No. 85 of 2025, which regulates the trading of petroleum products in the emirate. The committee said permits are being issued in stages, in coordination with licensing authorities and committee members. It has also held workshops and run campaigns in the media and on social media to explain the resolution's requirements to companies in the sector.

Al Muhairbi said cooperation between committee members and government bodies had produced tangible results, including unified inspection procedures, fewer violations and the issuing of Resolution No. 85. He said the next phase would speed up the digital transformation, develop the online platform and link it to Dubai 360 to make permit procedures easier and services more efficient.

The committee also released inspection figures. Since June 2022, joint inspection campaigns have uncovered more than 275 sites storing and distributing counterfeit gas cylinders. They led to the confiscation of more than 19,252 cylinders and the impounding of more than 751 transport and distribution vehicles, and 751 case reports were opened. In the diesel sector, inspectors checked 73 tanks at facilities they visited and 42 facilities in the Ras Al Khor Industrial Area. They impounded 14 diesel tankers that broke trading rules and UAE specifications.

The council has set up a permanent field inspection team and standardised inspection procedures and the handling of violations across the agencies involved. The committee did not say how many permits have been issued so far or what penalties will apply once violations start being issued.