Foster Wheeler wins Spanish engineering award for refinery expansion work
Foster Wheeler won the 2010 national prize in industrial engineering from the Spanish National Society of Professional Industrial Engineers for refinery expansion work completed for Repsol Petróleo S.A. in Cartagena (Murcia), Spain.
Foster Wheeler is the engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCm) contractor for the vacuum distillation unit and a delayed coking complex.
The coking complex uses Foster Wheeler’s SYDEC delayed coking technology. Foster Wheeler’s scope of work is expected to be completed during the fourth-quarter of 2011, it said.
“Foster Wheeler is honored to receive this prestigious award from the Spanish National Society of Professional Industrial Engineers,” said Umberto della Sala, Interim CEO of Foster Wheeler.
Francisco Javier Cobo, president of the society, presented the award to Foster Wheeler at a ceremony in Madrid on May 30.
Foster Wheeler’s SYDEC process is a flexible thermal conversion process used by refiners worldwide to upgrade heavy residue feed and process it into transport fuels and coke products for fuel and metallurgical markets.
The SYDEC process can be designed to maximize clean liquid yields while minimizing fuel coke yields, or to achieve other objectives, for example, to minimize heavy gas oil yields or to produce specific grades of coke for industrial use.
Foster Wheeler describes itself as a market leader in delayed coking, noting that it has supplied its process technology worldwide for over 80 new cokers and has implemented more than 70 delayed coker revamps.
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