Foster Wheeler FEED for two new Petrobras refineries
14 Dec 2010
Reading, UK – Foster Wheeler has been awarded a basic engineering design and front-end engineering design (FEED) contract for two grassroots refineries in Brazil for Petrobras.
The Premium I Refinery will be a dual train, 600,000 barrels per stream day (BPSD) facility in Maranhao State, and the Premium II Refinery will be a single-train 300,000 BPSD facility in Ceara State.
FW will be the prime subcontractor to Honeywell’s UOP, the managing process technology licensor.
Each refinery train will consist of a crude vacuum distillation unit, a four–drum delayed coker based on FW’s SYDEC technology, a hydrocracker, a distillate hydrotreater, a naphtha hydrotreater based on UOP technology, a hydrogen unit based on FW hydrogen production technology, a sour water stripper and amine regeneration and a sulfur recovery unit.
Both refineries will be designed to produce diesel.
