The Africa Center of Excellence in Oilfield Chemicals Research (ACE-CEFOR), University of Port Harcourt, has secured an International Accreditation for three of its post graduate programmes, the Masters programme in Petroleum Engineering & Project Development, the Masters programme in Petroleum & Gas Engineering and the PhD programme in Petroleum/Gas Engineering.

The accreditation was carried out by the High Council for Evaluation of Research and Higher Education (Hcéres), France. The international accreditation is the highest level of accreditation for the ACE Project and is valid for 5 years.