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    1. Refining & Processing
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    Contract let for Cameroon refinery upgrade

    June 1, 2010
    Cameroon’s Ste. Nationale de Raffinage (Sonara) has let an engineering, procurement, and construction management contract to Foster Wheeler AG for the first phase of a project to upgrade and modernize its 37,000-b/d hydroskimming Limbe refinery.

    By OGJ editors
    HOUSTON, June 1     -- Cameroon’s Ste. Nationale de Raffinage (Sonara) has let an engineering, procurement, and construction management contract to Foster Wheeler AG for the first phase of a project to upgrade and modernize its 37,000-b/d hydroskimming Limbe refinery.

    The project includes revamp of the crude distillation unit, addition of a vacuum distillation unit, a new catalytic reformer, and power-generation and related facilities.

    Foster Wheeler handled front-end engineering and design.

    Earlier, Sonara let a contract to Cegelec of France for upgrade of the refinery’s control system (OGJ Online, May 20, 2010).

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