It's occasionally tricky/troublesome to pass the current Portald from your DotNetNuke control that inherits PortalModuleBase so that it can be used in your business object logic. A trick that I learned looking at another developer's code recently is to get the current PortalId from PortalController.GetCurrentPortalSettings().PortalId. CurrentPortalSettings is set for every request, so it is always the value that you are looking for.

Hope it helps,