Uganda: Saipem to carry out refinery FEED

The Albertine Graben Refinery Consortium has given consortium member Saipem a contract for front-end engineering design work for the planned 60,000 b/d refinery at Hoima. The award follows the signing of a project framework agreement with the government in April. The consortium is made up of Saipem, Italian-based GE subsidiary Nuovo Pignone International, and two Mauritius-based companies, LionWorks Group and Yaatra Africa.