Amec Foster Wheeler

Amec Foster Wheeler announced last year that it was expanding its UAE operations in response to recent key contract awards and growing opportunities in the Middle East. The UK-based construction giant is currently busy executing a number of contracts from Abu Dhabi, the largest of which is a project management consultancy (PMC) contract for the UZ750 project in the Upper Zakum field.

In March this year, Amec Foster Wheeler won a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract from Sonatrach for three new refineries in Algeria, which will each have a capacity of 5mn tonnes per annum of Algerian crude oil, and contain facilities for atmospheric distillation, liquefied petroleum gas separation, hydrocrackers, desulphurisation, bitumen production, utilities, blending, effluents treatment, control room and laboratories. A sit in Biskra will also include lubrication oil facilities. At each of the refineries there will also be administrative buildings, storage tanks and shipping facilities. Amec Foster Wheeler will also support Sonatrach in the selection of technology licensors for all three refineries.