The scope of the project is the production of low-sulfur fuels, which also results in significant environmental improvements.
The terms of the awards were not disclosed and the contracts will be included in Foster Wheeler’s second quarter 2008 bookings. The refinery upgrade project, which will increase gasoline and diesel production, is expected to be completed by the end of 2010.
Foster Wheeler’s scope comprises a new 15,000 barrels per stream day (bpsd) continuous catalytic reformer, modification of the existing atmospheric distillation unit in order to switch the operation from high to low-sulfur crudes, and revamp of the existing naphtha hydrofiner and crude light ends processing unit to increase the refinery’s processing capacity for the light products to 26,000bpsd.
