Foster Wheeler to Provide EPCM Services to Thai Oil Refinery

Foster Wheeler has received a contract from Thai Oil for the basic design engineering package and engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services for its refinery in Sriracha, Thailand.

The value of the contract was not disclosed.

Foster Wheeler will provide EPCM services for Thai Oil’s Emission Improvement and PSA-3 project.

The scope of work includes providing the refinery greater flexibility in the crudes it can process, and improving its ability to upgrade fuel oil to more valuable end products and meet new sulphur oxide emissions regulations.

The work also covers the installation of new sour gas handling facilities – including a sulphur recovery unit and tail gas treatment unit – and the expansion of the refinery’s hydrogen production capacity through the installation of a new pressure swing adsorption unit.

The project is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2013.