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Foster Wheeler Wins BP Refinery Contract

Thu. August 21, 2008; Posted: 05:12 PM
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Aug 21, 2008 (financialwire.net via COMTEX) -- FWLT | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- August 21, 2008 (FinancialWire) Foster Wheeler Ltd.'s (NASDAQ: FWLT | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) (Current Market Cap: US$7.26 Bil.) Foster Wheeler USA unit has been awarded contracts by BP Products North America (NYSE: BP | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) for the engineering, procurement and fabrication of a 102,000 barrels per stream day six-drum delayed coking unit and gas plant facilities at BP's Whiting refinery in Indiana.

The work is part of the BP Whiting Refinery modernization project, which will increase Whiting gasoline production by 1.7 million gallons a day and equip the refinery to process increased amounts of secure Canadian crude oil.

Terms of the award were not disclosed. Foster Wheeler USA has been working on this project since 2005 and a number of bookings have been made as work was released in stages by BP, including a release for the thermal design, engineering, procurement, and material supply of three delayed coker heaters.

The Foster Wheeler delayed coker heaters are a component of the company's Sydec process technology. Foster Wheeler's Sydec process is a thermal conversion process used by refiners to upgrade heavy residue feed and process it into transport fuels.

The company has supplied its delayed coking process technology worldwide for more than eighty new cokers and has worked on more than seventy delayed coker revamps.

Bermuda-based Foster Wheeler is an engineering and construction contractor and power equipment supplier delivering facilities and equipment. The company's Engineering & Construction Group designs and constructs processing facilities for the upstream oil and gas, LNG and gas-to-liquids, refining, chemicals and petrochemicals, power, environmental, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and healthcare industries.

Foster Wheeler Global Power Group designs, manufactures and erects steam generating and auxiliary equipment for power stations and industrial facilities and also provides a range of aftermarket services.

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