Foster Wheeler bags contract for Cilacap Refinery upgrade
Tuesday, March 27 2012 - 12:54 PM WIB
Swiss-based global engineering and construction firm Foster Wheeler AG announced Tuesday that its subsidiary has been awarded a contract by state oil, gas firm PT Pertamina (Persero) to provide project management consultancy services for the Residue Fluid Catalytic Cracker (RFCC) Project at the Cilacap Refinery, Central Java.
Foster Wheeler will manage the engineering, procurement and construction contractor on behalf of Pertamina.
The RFCC project is intended to build a 62,000 barrels per day (BPD) RCC Complex, which includes a RFCC, a new LPG Merox(TM) unit (Merox is a trademark of UOP LLC), and propylene recovery and gasoline hydrotreating units. The addition of an RFCC unit should enable the refinery to increase fuel production, especially fuel-air high-octane fuels intended to meet European Union EURO IV quality specifications. Production of liquid petroleum gases is also expected to be increased by 350,000 tons per annum (TPA), and the refinery also plans to produce in excess of 140,000 TPA of propylene. The upgrade is expected to be completed in 2014.
?Key to winning this contract was our ability to manage the project from our newly-established operations in Jakarta, Indonesia, as well as our proven project management capability and our leading technical expertise in all areas of refining,? said Umberto della Sala, Chief Operating Officer, Foster Wheeler AG.