Foster Wheeler to carry out feasibility study

Foster Wheeler Energy and Foster Wheeler International Engineering and Consulting have been awarded contracts to perform a feasibility study for an 80,000 barrels per day coal-to-liquids (CTL) plant.

Together with its consortium partner, Wuhuan Engineering Company, Foster Wheeler will carry out the study at the plant in the Ningxia Hui autonomous region, the coal-rich western part of China.

Foster Wheeler will develop the technical definition, engineering, procurement and construction strategy and cost estimate, plus provide input to the project's financial evaluation to support project approval by the Chinese government.

The planned facility will convert coal into selected fuel products such as diesel, naphtha and liquefied petroleum gas by combining three principal processes: gasification of coal to synthesis gas; the conversion of synthesis gas into liquid fuels using Sasol's low-temperature Fischer-Tropsch technology; and hydrocracking the converted products into valuable fuel products.

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