By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Mar. 11 -- Total SA let a $1.9 billion contract to Fluor Corp. for engineering, procurement, and construction of certain units at Total's Port Arthur, Tex., refinery.
The EPC contract covers a 50,000-b/d coker and desulfurization, vacuum distillation, and related units at Total's 231,000 b/d Port Arthur refinery.
The $2.2 billion increase in the refinery's deep-conversion capacity will boost output of ultralow-sulfur automotive diesel by 3 million tonnes/year. Commissioning is scheduled in 2011.
The new contract follows Fluor's completion of front-end engineering and design work at the Port Arthur refinery.
