In an announcement made today, Foster Wheeler Ltd. (Hamilton, Bermuda; www.fwc.com) reported that its Madrid-based subsidiary, Foster Wheeler Iberia, S.A.U., has been awarded a contract to provide the basic design and estimating services for the expansion of a delayed coker complex owned by MOL Hungarian Oil & Gas Co. (Budapest, Hungary; www.mol.hu).
Located at MOL’s refinery in Százhalombatta, the existing coker complex will be expanded 27% to a flowrate of 26,400 bpsd. Additionally, the firms plan to include the fractionation, gas-recovery and sour-water stripper units in the expanded coker complex. The process design package will be developed by Foster Wheeler Iberia in tandem with Foster Wheeler’s Houston operations.
Currently, the coking complex already employs Foster Wheeler’s SYDEC delayed coking technology — a thermal conversion process that upgrades heavy residue feed into high-value transport fuels.