Clean Fuels Upgrade Project for Foster Wheeler

Foster Wheeler Ltd has been awarded a project management consultancy contract by Hyundai Oilbank Co., Ltd. for a $200m clean fuels upgrade project at the Hyundai Oilbank Refinery at Daesan, 130 kms southwest of Seoul, Korea. Contractors Unlimited has not been advised of the contract value

Foster Wheeler have been involved with this refinery since the late 1980s, when it was known as the Kukdong refinery

This clean fuels project will include a new plant comprising a third 25,000 bpd gas oil (heating oil) hydrotreating unit, a 20,000 bpd motor gasoline (mogas) hydrodesulfurization unit, and a 40 million standard cubic feet per day hydrogen manufacturing unit. It will also include the revamp of the second existing 35,000 bpd gas oil hydrotreating unit, plus minor offsites and utilities works.

The investment will reduce the sulfur content of the mogas from the hydrodesulfurization unit from 200 parts per million (ppm) to 30 ppm and the gas oil from the new gas oil hydrotreating unit to 10 ppm. This is being undertaken in compliance with the Korean government's environmental legislation, which comes into effect on January 1, 2006.