Foster Wheeler Awarded Aramco Contract

Foster Wheeler Energy Limited, the Reading based contractor, has been awarded a project management services contract for two distillate hydrotreaters and power cogeneration plants by Aramco Overseas Company.

Contractors Unlimited were not advised of the contract value.

Foster Wheeler's scope of work associated with the hydrotreaters is to provide engineering and project management services for facilities at Saudi Aramco's Riyadh and Yanbu refineries. This work follows the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's plans to improve the ambient air quality for the most populated cities, Riyadh, Jeddah and Makkah, by switching to lower sulfur diesel fuel in 2006.

Foster Wheeler has been contracted to upgrade the mid-distillates to low-sulfur diesel at both refineries. The facilities will enable the refineries initially to produce 500 ppm and eventually 50 ppm sulfur content diesel.

In addition, Foster Wheeler is to provide engineering and project management services for the power cogeneration plants, the first of which will be at Berri, followed by other plants. All facilities will provide combustion gas turbine generators with heat recovery steam generators as well as high-voltage substations, high-voltage transmission lines, and cooling tower/fin fan coolers. Existing plant systems and utilities, including the distributed control system, will be upgraded.

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