By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Sept. 28 -- CJSC Nizhnekamsk Refinery has let a contract to Foster Wheeler Ltd. subsidiary Foster Wheeler USA Corp. to design a process package involving its proprietary delayed coking technology.
The coker will be part of an integrated refining and petrochemical grassroots complex to be constructed at Nizhnekamsk in Tatarstan, Russia.
The contract's terms were not disclosed. Foster Wheeler also has the front-end engineering design contract for the integrated complex (OGJ, Sept. 25, 2006, Newsletter).
In the coking contract, Foster Wheeler will provide its thermal conversion process to upgrade heavy residue feed and process it into transport fuels.
