Sinclair Tulsa refinery to get delayed coker

Sinclair Oil let a reimbursable EPC contract to Foster Wheeler USA for a 30,000 b/sd delayed coker, gas plant, and coke-handling facilities at its 60,000 b/d refinery in Tulsa.

Sept. 11, 2006

By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Sept. 11 -- Sinclair Oil Corp., Salt Lake City, has let a reimbursable engineering, procurement, and construction contract to Foster Wheeler USA Corp. for a 30,000 b/sd delayed coker, gas plant, and coke-handling facilities at its 60,000 b/d refinery in Tulsa.

The coker will use Foster Wheeler's Selective Yield Delayed Coking process.

Sinclair expects the unit to be in operation in 2009.