Foster Wheeler Wins Contract for a New Delayed Coker Complex for Petronor in Spain
August 07 2007 - 10:00AM
Business Wire
Foster Wheeler Ltd. (Nasdaq: FWLT) announced today that its
Madrid-based subsidiary Foster Wheeler Iberia, S.A.U., part of its
Global Engineering and Construction Group, has been awarded a
contract by Petr�leos del Norte, S.A. (Petronor) for the
engineering, procurement and construction management of a delayed
coking complex at its refinery at Somorrostro (Vizcaya), in
northern Spain. The coking complex will be comprised of a 36,000
barrels per stream day delayed coker, which will use Foster
Wheeler�s leading SYDEC(SM) delayed coking technology, plus coke
handling and storage facilities and a gas concentration unit.
Petronor is majority-owned by Repsol YPF. The contract value was
not disclosed and will be included in Foster Wheeler�s
third-quarter 2007 bookings. This award follows the successful
completion of the process design package by Foster Wheeler's coking
center of excellence in Houston and of the front-end engineering
design undertaken by Foster Wheeler Iberia. �This award reflects
the successful and long-standing working relationship between
Petronor and Foster Wheeler Iberia, which began with our
involvement in the design and construction of the new refinery in
1969 at Somorrostro,� said Jesus Cadenas, chief executive officer
of Foster Wheeler Iberia. �We are very pleased that Petronor has
selected Foster Wheeler's technology and project execution
expertise for its new delayed coking complex, which will allow it
to reduce its production of low-value fuel oil, by upgrading it
into higher-value products such as naphtha and diesel." Foster
Wheeler's SYDEC(SM) process is a thermal conversion process used by
refiners worldwide to upgrade heavy residue feed and process it
into high-value transport fuels. The SYDEC(SM) process achieves
maximum clean liquid yields and minimum fuel coke yields. Foster
Wheeler is a market leader in delayed coking and has supplied its
delayed coking process technology worldwide for over 80 new cokers
and has worked on more than 70 delayed coker revamps. Foster
Wheeler Ltd. is a global company offering, through its
subsidiaries, a broad range of engineering, procurement,
construction, manufacturing, project development and management,
research and plant operation services. Foster Wheeler serves the
upstream oil and gas, LNG and gas-to-liquids, refining,
petrochemicals, chemicals, power, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology
and healthcare industries. The corporation is based in Hamilton,
Bermuda, and its operational headquarters are in Clinton, New
Jersey, USA. For more information about Foster Wheeler, please
visit our Web site at www.fwc.com. Safe Harbor Statement Foster
Wheeler news releases may contain forward-looking statements that
are based on management�s assumptions, expectations and projections
about the Company and the various industries within which the
Company operates. These include statements regarding the Company�s
expectations regarding revenues (including as expressed by its
backlog), its liquidity, the outcome of litigation and legal
proceedings and recoveries from customers for claims, and the costs
of current and future asbestos claims, and the amount and timing of
related insurance recoveries. Such forward-looking statements by
their nature involve a degree of risk and uncertainty. The Company
cautions that a variety of factors, including but not limited to
the factors described in Part II, Item 1A �Risk Factors� of the
Company�s most recent quarterly report on Form 10-Q and the
following, could cause the Company�s business conditions and
results to differ materially from what is contained in
forward-looking statements: changes in the rate of economic growth
in the United States and other major international economies,
changes in investment by the oil and gas, oil refining,
chemical/petrochemical and power industries, changes in the
financial condition of its customers, changes in regulatory
environment, changes in project design or schedules, contract
cancellations, changes in estimates made by the Company of costs to
complete projects, changes in trade, monetary and fiscal policies
worldwide, compliance with laws and regulations relating to our
global operations, currency fluctuations, war and/or terrorist
attacks on facilities either owned or where equipment or services
are or may be provided, interruptions to shipping lanes or other
methods of transport, outcomes of pending and future litigation,
including litigation regarding the Company�s liability for damages
and insurance coverage for asbestos exposure, protection and
validity of its patents and other intellectual property rights,
increasing competition by foreign and domestic companies,
compliance with its debt covenants, recoverability of claims
against its customers and others by the Company and clams by third
parties against the Company, changes in estimates used in its
critical accounting policies. Other factors and assumptions not
identified above were also involved in the formation of these
forward-looking statements and the failure of such other
assumptions to be realized, as well as other factors, may also
cause actual results to differ materially from those projected.
Most of these factors are difficult to predict accurately and are
generally beyond the Company�s control. You should consider the
areas of risk described above in connection with any
forward-looking statements that may be made by the Company. The
Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update any
forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information,
future events or otherwise. You are advised, however, to consult
any additional disclosures the Company makes in proxy statements,
quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, annual reports on Form 10-K and
current reports on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission.
Foster Wheeler (NASDAQ:FWLT)
Historical Stock Chart
From Jun 2024 to Jul 2024
Foster Wheeler (NASDAQ:FWLT)
Historical Stock Chart
From Jul 2023 to Jul 2024