Foster Wheeler picks up Petro-Rabigh contract
Posted: 20 February 2006
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Foster Wheeler has been awarded the EPC contract for the utilities and offsites of Petro-Rabigh's integrated refining and petrochemical complex. The multi-billion dollar Petro-Rabigh project is a joint venture between Saudi Aramco and Sumitomo Chemical.
 Foster Wheeler will undertake detailed design, procurement and management of the construction contractors for: utilities and offsite facilities, including all interconnecting process and utility piping; 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 new high-olefins fluid catalytic cracker complex is being integrated with a world-scale, ethane-based cracker, producing approximately 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 commence during the first quarter of 2006 and the project is planned for completion in 2008.
Steve Davies, chairman and chief executive officer of Foster Wheeler Energy, said: "We have been working with Petro-Rabigh on the overall Rabigh development project for 18 months executing the feasibility study and developing the front-end engineering design.”
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