Tag: refinery
Coker contract for BP whiting refinery in USA
Foster Wheeler Ltd has announced that its subsidiary Foster Wheeler USA Corp., part of its Global Engineering and Construction Group, has been awarded contracts by BP Products North America for the engineering, procurement and fabrication of a 102,000bpsd six-drum delayed coking unit and gas plant facilities at BP’s Whiting refinery in Indiana, USA.
India: third refinery at Jamnagar
Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) is evaluating a plan to set up its third refinery at Jamnagar in an ambitious project to reach a total capacity of 100 million tonne per annum.
Canada: refinery expansion
Mustang Engineering (Mustang), a subsidiary of international energy services company John Wood Group PLC (Wood Group), is currently providing front-end engineering design services to International Alliance Group (IAG) for the Consumers’ Co-operative Refineries Ltd (CCRL) refinery expansion project in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
New refinery in Ecuador
Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa has announced that Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, PDVSA, and Ecuador-based Petroecuador have signed a Memorandum of Intent in order to build a new refinery in the coastal province of Manabi, NE Ecuador.
Saudi refinery
Saudi Aramco and Japan’s Sumitomo Chemical Co. officially signed an agreement to set up an equally-owned joint venture for an integrated refinery and petrochemicals project in Rabigh, Saudi Arabia, but they now see total investment costs doubling to USD 8.5 billion, Sumitomo has said.
Italy: refinery agreement
Foster Wheeler Italiana SpA has agreed rto provide engineering services for Italiana Energia Servizi SpA.
Sudan: petroleum refinery
India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) will build a USD 1.2 billion refinery in Sudan.
UK: Welsh debottlenecking
Foster Wheeler Ltd has been awarded a contract to debottleneck and improve the energy efficiency of Total’s refinery at Milford Haven, Wales, UK.
Singapore: cracker project
Shell announces that it is progressing to the next phase of its proposed world-scale cracker and derivatives project in Singapore.
China: Qingdao refinery
Sinopec has launched a subsidiary company, Sinopec Qingdao Refinery and Chemical Company, to construct and operate a USD 1.2 billion refinery in Qingdao,China.
