A RESEARCH COLLABORATION between Sasol and the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the University of Pretoria (UP) has led to the commissioning of high-tech equipment to gain better insights into the properties and performance of synthetic diesel fuels.

UK explorer Tullow Oil has to pay capital gains tax on proceeds from the transfer of working interests, or farm-downs, in its Uganda assets to France's Total and China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), a senior government official said.

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.