Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland, www.fwc.com) has announced that subsidiaries of its Global Engineering and Construction Group, together with a joint venture partner for the project, Altair Strickland LLC, have been awarded contracts by Pemex Refinación (www.ref.pemex.com) for the engineering, design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and startup of slide valve systems on the Foster Wheeler delayed coker units at two refineries in Mexico: the Hector R. Lara Sosa Refinery, located in Cadereyta, Nueva Leon, and the Francisco I. Madero refinery, in Ciudad Madero, Tamaulipas. Both projects are scheduled to be completed during refinery turnarounds in 2015. The Foster Wheeler contract values were not disclosed and were included in the company’s fourth-quarter 2013 bookings
Foster Wheeler awarded coker contracts for Pemex refineries
| By Mary Page Bailey