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News Release from: Foster-Wheeler
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 08 August 2007
Delayed coking complex for Petronor in
Spain
Foster Wheeler has won a contract for the engineering, procurement and construction management of a delayed coking complex at the Petronor refinery at Somorrostro (Vizcaya), in northern Spain
The coking complex will be comprised of a 36,000 barrels per stream day delayed coker, which will use the leading Foster Wheeler Sydec delayed coking technology, plus coke handling and storage facilities and a gas concentration unit Petronor is majority-owned by Repsol YPF
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 2 Nov 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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This award follows the successful completion of the process design package by the Foster Wheeler coking centre of excellence in Houston and of the front-end engineering design undertaken by Foster Wheeler Iberia.
"This award reflects the successful and long-standing working relationship between Petronor and Foster Wheeler Iberia, which began with our involvement in the design and construction of the new refinery in 1969 at Somorrostro," said Jesus Cadenas, chief executive officer of Foster Wheeler Iberia: "We are very pleased that Petronor has selected Foster Wheeler technology and project execution expertise for its new delayed coking complex, which will allow it to reduce its production of low-value fuel oil, by upgrading it into higher-value products such as naphtha and diesel".
The Foster Wheeler Sydec process is a thermal conversion process used by refiners worldwide to upgrade heavy residue feed and process it into high-value transport fuels.
The Sydec process achieves maximum clean liquid yields and minimum fuel coke yields.
Foster Wheeler is a market leader in delayed coking and has supplied its delayed coking process technology worldwide for over 80 new cokers and has worked on more than 70 delayed coker revamps.
Foster Wheeler is a global company offering, through its subsidiaries, a broad range of engineering, procurement, construction, manufacturing, project development and management, research and plant operation services.
Foster Wheeler serves the upstream oil and gas, LNG and gas-to-liquids, refining, petrochemicals, chemicals, power, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and healthcare industries.
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