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Product category: Design and Development Consultancy
News Release from: Foster Wheeler
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial Team on 04 September 2006

Indians enlist help with petrochemicals
complex

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Foster Wheeler Energy has been awarded a contract by India's Oil and Natural Gas Corp to provide technology consultancy services for a planned new petrochemicals complex.

Foster Wheeler Energy has been awarded a contract by India's Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) to provide technology consultancy services for a planned new petrochemicals complex at Dahej, Gujarat, northwest India The terms of the contract were not disclosed, and the project was included in Foster Wheeler's first-quarter 2006 bookings

"This award further extends Foster Wheeler's long-standing relationship with ONGC", said Steve Davies, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Foster Wheeler Energy.

"We were actively involved in the development of Petronet's new LNG receiving terminal at Dahej (an ONGC joint venture), and have worked with ONGC to develop new facilities for the extraction of petrochemicals feedstock from LNG for use at the new petrochemicals complex".

"With our in-depth technical expertise, we will now assist ONGC in developing the optimum technical solution for their planned petrochemicals facility".

The new petrochemicals complex will comprise various petrochemical plant units, including an ethylene unit.

Foster Wheeler will support ONGC in the selection and appointment of technology licensors and the appointment of an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor for the ethylene unit.

The company will also be involved, on behalf of ONGC, in the selection, appointment and management of the EPC contractors for the development of site infrastructure.

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