MOSCOW (MRC) -- Foster Wheeler has announced that a subsidiary of its global engineering and construction business has been awarded an engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contract by ExxonMobil Petroleum & Chemical (Esso) to upgrade its Antwerp refinery in Belgium, as per Hydrocarbonprocessing.
The Esso project is officially named the Antwerp Northwest Europe Resid Upgrade Project - Revamp and Offsites facilities.
Foster Wheeler's contract value was not disclosed, and a small initial release of work was included in the company’s first-quarter 2014 bookings.
The full release of work was included in the company's second-quarter 2014 bookings.
"After the successful completion by Foster Wheeler of the front-end engineering design for this project and for the new delayed coking unit that will be built at the same facility, we are very pleased to have won this significant EPC contract for this challenging project," said Roberto Penno, CEO of Foster Wheeler's global engineering and construction group.
Foster Wheeler’s scope of work is expected to be completed in December 2016.
As MRC informed previously, in early 2014, ExxonMobil officially opened its multi-billion dollar Singapore chemical plant expansion on Jurong Island, to serve growth markets in the Asia-Pacific region. The expansion included a second 1-million-t/y steam cracker, two 650,000-t/y polyethylene plants, a 450,000-t/y polypropylene plant, a 300,000-t/y specialty elastomers unit, an aromatics extraction facility to produce 340,000 t/y of benzene, and a 125,000-t/y oxo-alcohol expansion.
ExxonMobil is the largest non-government owned company in the energy industry and produces about 3% of the world's oil and about 2% of the world's energy.
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