KBR HAS BEEN awarded a contract by Houston-based FPR Inc. to provide design and early engineering services for the development of the Araromi Refinery Project in the OK Free Trade Zone (OKFTZ) in Nigeria.

During a meeting this week in Arusha, Tanzania, an official with the East African Community (EAC) Secretariat said that European and African firms will perform a feasibility study on a proposed natural gas pipeline from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania to Mombasa, Kenya via Tanga, Tanzania.

Nigeria's sweeping oil reform bill should resolve the Opec member's chronic funding shortfalls which have stalled expansion in the country's energy sector, a senior lawmaker said recently.

Behind a great wall of statistics emerges a pattern of domestic energy supplies falling further behind growth overall. But Africa cannot take the huge China market for granted, our Special Correspondent warns.

A new Nigerian law that gives preference to local service companies also guarantees fair access to foreign oil companies who want to do business in the west African country, the oil minister said.