2647a.     ---------------.  [PETROLEUM REFINER.]  Lukuga Synthetics Plant Possibility for Congo.  Vol. 31, No. 8, 1952, p. 62.

        Possibility of establishing a synthetic oil plant in the Belgian Congo by the Lukuga Coal Syndicate has already passed the study stage.  Several hundred ton of coal have been shipped from the Lukuga Basin to Belgium for testing to determine its adaptability for transformation into gas and to choose the most appropriate method of gasification.  The syndicate was organized in 1950 to study the possibility of establishing a synthetic fuels plant in the Belgian Congo.  The Congo has coal deposits but no known oil resources.