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Chemical Industry in Nigeria Project
General Issues
Minister Jamodu Address on Industrial Policy [20th June, 2002]
Interview with Minister Aliyu on Steel, Aluminium & Power (February 12, 2002)
The Mineral Industry of Nigeria in 2001 (Mobbs, USGS)
Energy Concepts
Financing the Industry
Bank of Industry website
Bank of Industry (on BPE website)
Bank of Industry news
Crude Oil Industry
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) - official site
NNPC's (unofficial) CPI site
Oil Field Glossary (Schlumberger)
Gas Industry
Nigerian Gas Company Limited (NGC)
Nigeria's Gas Sector: Investment Opportunities (NigeriaBusinessInfo.com)
5,800 MMSCF/D Gas Monetised Represents One Million B/D Equivalent - Kupolokun (August 10, 2004)
Running News on Gas in Nigeria
Petro-refining & Petrochemical Industry
In Nigeria....
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Port Harcourt Refining Company (PHRC) Limited
Eleme Petrochemical Company Limited (EPCL)
Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company Limited (WRPC)
Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company (KRPC)
Orient Petroleum Resources Ltd. (Private refinery)
Running News on Petro-refining in Nigeria
Refining Processes, etc.
* What A Barrel of Crude Oil Makes
* How Oil Refining Works (How Stuff Works)
* Petroleum Refining Processes (OSHA Technical Manual)
* Petroleum Refining Industry (EPA document)
* Case Study - Petroleum: Modern Refining (U. Minnesota)
* Petroleum Refining (World Bank .pdf document)
* Petroleum Refining in the US (Euromonitor)* Petroleum Refining Production & Manufacturing (Corrosion Cost)
Some Companies, etc.
Refining Value Process - Agilent Techologies
Petroleum Refining - Black & Veatch Corp.
Petroleum Refining - Fluor Corp.
Petroleum Refineries - Holly Corp.
Bitumen Industries
Raw Materials Research and Development Council (RMRDC)
RMRDC Brief on Coal & Bitumen/Tar Sand
Running News on Bitumen in Nigeria
In-Situ Recovery Methods for Heavy Oil and Bitumen
Heavy Oil and Sands: Thermal Gravity Methods
Coal Industries
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What is Coal? (pdf)
How Coal Works (Union of Concerned Scientists)
The Uses of Coal
Materials that Can be extracted from One Ton of Coal (pdf)
Management of Technological Change in Africa: The Coal Industry in Nigeria (Oyeyinka)
Notes on Coal(Energy Concepts)
Clean Coal Techologies
Coal Liquefaction
Clean Coal Technologies (Energy Div., ITA)
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My Coal Patent
Process for removal of hazardous air pollutants from coal
[US Patent # 6,156,281 (December 5, 2000)]
Cement Industry
1. Raw material storage 2. Grinding 3. Blending 4. Preheating / precalcination
5. Rotary kiln 6. Clinker storage 7. Additions (gypsum, fly ash, etc.)
8. Cement grinding 9. Bulk storage & loading
Technical Building Materials - Quoted Stocks on the Nigerian Stock Exchange
Privatization plans for government-owned cement plants
Technical Change in the Nigerian Cement Industry (Esubiyi)
Processes
Cement Chemistry
Energy Efficiency Improvement Opportunities
for Cement Making (LBNL)
Cement & Concrete Basics: How Portland Cement is Made
How Cement is Made
Paper Industry
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Pulp, Paper, Paper Products, Printing & Publishing (RMRDC Industrial Sector write-up)
Energy Efficiency and the Pulp and Paper Industry (Nilson et. al, ACEEE)
About the Paper Industry (CPBIS)
Iron & Steel Industry
Overview of Steel and Solid Minerals (Bureau of Public Enterprise)
Achievements of National Iron Ore Mining Company NIOMCO(Fed. Ministry of Power and Steel - May 2002)
Why We Oppose Privatisation of Steel And Rolling Mill Companies - Workers (May 6, 2003)
Interview with Minister Bashir Dalhatu on Ajaokuta (July 2003)
Obasanjo in Ajaokuta - A Column from the Presidency (August 7, 2003)
Ajaokuta Steel Project And Nigeria's Industrialisation Process - Haruna Al-Rashid Yusuf (November 12, 2003)
Ajaokuta: Solgas Moves From Rhetoric to Action - Seun Oyefeso (December 2, 2003)
Ajaokuta: a Generational Challenge (January 27, 2004)
Obasanjo, the Senate and the Solgas story ...Federal Government intervenes - Jide Ajani (Vanguard, August 16, 2004)
Running News on SOLGAS Company in Nigeria
Running News & Commentary on Iron & Steel in Nigeria
Biotechnology
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What is Biotechnology (Union of Concerned Scientists)
National Center for Biotechnology Information
Image Library of Biological Macromolecules
Cato Biotechnology Information Directory
Bioinformatics & Constraints (David Gilbert, UK)
African Policy Dialogues on Biotechnology
DNA Structure (by Access Excellence @ National Health Museum) - Click each diagram to enlarge
A Structure for for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid (Watson and Crick, 1953)
Introduction to Nucleic Acids and Application to Infectious Disease Detection (by Joan Polancic)
Nucleic Acids - DNA and RNA (Antnoy Carpi)
An Introduction to DNA Structure
Food and Agro-Allied Industry
KEY FACT:
Country Studies - Nigeria - Agriculture
"In 1990, estimates indicated that 82 million hectares out of Nigeria's total land area of about
91 million hectares were arable. However, only about 34 million hectares (or
42 percent of the cultivable area) were being cultivated at the time. Much of
this land was farmed under bush fallow, a technique whereby an area much larger
than that under cultivation is left idle for varying periods to allow natural
regeneration of soil fertility. Another 18 million hectares were classified as
permanent pasture, but much of this land had the potential to support crops.
About 20 million hectares were covered by forests and woodlands. Most of this
land also had agricultural potential. The country's remaining 19 million hectares
were covered by buildings or roads, or were considered wasteland......"
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Nutrient Summary for Vegetarians & Vegans
Linus Pauling Institute Micronutrient Information Center
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (Nigeria)
Farmers' Bookshelf [College of Tropical Agriculture and Human
Resources, University of Hawaii at Manoa]
Information and Communication Support for Agricultural Growth in
Nigeria
The Food Label
Nutrition Data Center
Info on Fatty Acids [Nutrition Data Center]
Fat Free Kitchen.com
Some information on various crops
Cocoa Section
 
Running news on Cocoa
Cocoa Central Station
World Cocoa Foundation
World Supply Outlook
Cocoa Horticulture
Growing Cocoa
Oil Palm Section
Palm Oil Situation Report (Phillipines)
Oil Palm - Achievements and Potentials
Starch Section
Information on Starch
Starch containing plants include: banana, cassava, maize, millet, potato, rice, sorghum,
sweet potato, wheat, yam. See here
Structure of Starch, carbohydrate, (C6.H10.O5)x, x = 50 to many thousands
Note: ultimate product of hydrolysis of starch: glucose (synonym: dextrose) C6.H12.O6, a monosaccharide, and maltose, C12.H22.O11 (= two glucose molecules), a disaccharide.
Note also that: fructose: C6.H12.O6 (like glucose); Sucrose (C12.H22.O11) is the simple chemical name of table sugar = glucose + fructose.
Starch Engineering
Cassava Section
Running news on Cassava
The Cassava Plant (IITA)
Information on Cassava (Nigerian Nation)
Researchers get to the root of Cassava's Cyanide-Producing Abilities
Cassava Processing (FAO, 1977)
The Processing of Cassava Leaves for Human Consumption
Chemical Composition of Several Crops ByProducts as Animal Feed in Vietnam
Cassava Project for School Agriculture
Foreign Exchange from Sweet Cassava Leaves in St. Thomas
Maize Section
Maize (IITA)
Maize Yield Information
A Ceiling on What Farmers can Raise on a Plot
Rice Section
International Rice Research Institute
Nano-Technology
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The Scale of Things
Nanopedia (Case Western Reserve University)
Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI), US Government
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