The Africa Centre of Excellence in Oilfield Chemicals Research (ACE-CEFOR) of the University of Port Harcourt, is one of the beneficiaries of the World Bank grant in Nigeria.  The mission of the Centre is to train both national and international postgraduate students with multi-disciplinary expertise in Engineering and Science for sustainable development in the Oil and Gas industry in Africa.

In the event of this, the ACE-CEFOR have once again provided equipment for the Environmental Quality Assessment Laboratory which belongs to the Department of Civil Engineering. Below is the good work of ACE-CEFOR: