Coker contract for Foster Wheeler

Foster Wheeler USA Corporation has recently been awarded a contract by CNOOC Oil & Petrochemicals for the thermal design, engineering, procurement, and material supply of two delayed coker heaters.

Foster Wheeler USA Corporation

has recently been awarded a contract by CNOOC Oil & Petrochemicals (COPC) for the thermal design, engineering, procurement, and material supply of two delayed coker heaters.

The heaters will be installed in a new four-drum delayed coking unit, which will be part of the new COPC Huizhou refinery at Daya Bay, Guangdong Province, China.

This latest contract follows the 2005 award to Foster Wheeler of the process design package for the new delayed coking unit, which will be based on its Selective Yield Delayed Coking (SYDEC) process.

The terms of the award, which were included in the company's fourth-quarter 2006 bookings, were not disclosed.