Foster Wheeler subsidiary gets Banagas contract

Bahrain National Gas Co. (Banagas) awarded a contract to Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd., a subsidiary of Foster Wheeler Ltd., for front-end engineering design to revamp its liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) facilities.

June 1, 2004

By OGJ editors

HOUSTON, June 1 -- Bahrain National Gas Co. (Banagas) awarded a contract to Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd., a subsidiary of Foster Wheeler Ltd., for front-end engineering design to revamp its liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) facilities.

Value of the contract was not disclosed. Banagas' revamped LPG facilities will process 308 MMscfd of associated sour gas with Arab gas and refinery offgas rich in LPG liquids. The present facilities process 280 MMscfd in two plants with associated gas treatment and LPG and naphtha export facilities at the Bahrain oil field south of Awali. It also has refrigerated product storage and loading areas at Sitra, 15 km south of Manama, Bahrain.