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News Release from: Foster Wheeler
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 17 February 2006
Engineering contract for major Saudi
refinery
Engineering, procurement and construction contract for the utilities and offsites of world-scale, integrated refining and petrochemical complex in the Red Sea town of Rabigh, Saudi Arabia.
Foster Wheeler Energy and Foster Wheeler Arabia have been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction contract by Rabigh Refining and Petrochemical (Petrorabigh) for the utilities and offsites of its world-scale, integrated refining and petrochemical complex at the Red Sea town of Rabigh, Saudi Arabia Petrorabigh is a joint venture between Saudi Aramco and Sumitomo Chemical
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 2 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Foster Wheeler contract value was not disclosed and the project will be included in the company's first-quarter 2006 bookings.
"The award of this contract for one of the world's most significant refinery and petrochemical investments reinforces our position as a leading engineering, procurement and construction contractor," said Steve Davies, Chairman and CEO of Foster Wheeler Energy.
"We have been working with Petrorabigh on the overall Rabigh Development Project for 18 months executing the feasibility study and developing the front-end engineering design".
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Foster Wheeler will undertake detailed design, procurement and management of the construction contractors for: utilities and offsite facilities, including all connecting process and utility piping for the complex; flare, water, air and power systems; instrumentation and control rooms; main electrical distribution substations, firewater systems, blending and metering; and refurbishment and change in duty of existing tankage and roads.
Saudi Aramco's existing refinery and infrastructure at Rabigh will serve as the base platform for the development.
When completed, this will be one of the largest integrated refining and petrochemical projects ever to be built at one time.
A total of 2.4 million tonnes of petrochemical solids and liquids, along with large volumes of gasoline and other refined products, will be produced.
As part of the development, the refinery is being upgraded to produce more transportation fuels.
A high-olefins fluid catalytic cracker complex is being integrated with an ethane-based cracker, producing about 1.5 million tonnes per year of ethylene, 900,000 tonnes per year of propylene and 60,000 barrels per day of gasoline as well as other refined products.
Downstream units will convert all of the olefin production into petrochemical products, such as linear low-density polyethylene, high-density polyethylene, polypropylene, propylene oxide and mono ethylene glycol.
Construction will start during the first quarter of 2006 and the project is planned for completion in 2008.
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