Shell taps Foster Wheeler for Qatar MEG project
9 Sep 2012
Zug, Switzerland - Shell Global Solutions International BV has awarded Foster Wheeler the contract to develop a basic engineering package (BEP) for a world-scale mono-ethylene glycol (MEG) facility at Ras Laffan, Qatar.
The MEG facility will be part of a new petrochemicals complex in Ras Laffan Industrial City being developed by a JV between Qatar Petroleum and Shell. The two-train MEG facility, based on Shell’s OMEGA technology, is planned to produce 1,500ktpa of MEG.
Foster Wheeler was the FEED and EPCM contractor for Shell’s OMEGA-based MEG plant on Jurong Island in Singapore, officially opened on 11 Dec 2009.
The Reading, UK-based EPC’s project execution on Shell’s MEG facility in Singapore, one of the world’s largest MEG facilities, was a key factor in it gaining the contract, said Umberto della Sala, president and COO, Foster Wheeler AG.
“Our team for the Qatar MEG project will include key members of the team which successfully delivered the Singapore project,” commented della Salla.
“We will leverage our understanding of Shell’s OMEGA process, and our experience and lessons learned from the Singapore project, which was the largest OMEGA facility built to date, to deliver a high quality basic engineering package for our client,” he added.
