Foster Wheeler to Supply Heat Recovery Steam Generator in Spain

Foster Wheeler Ltd. announced that a subsidiary of its Global Power Group has been awarded a contract for a heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) by UTE IBERESE-SOMAGUE — a business alliance formed between Iberese and the constructor, Somague, a Portuguese subsidiary of the Spanish construction group Sacyr Vallehermoso. The boiler will be integrated in a cogeneration plant that REPSOL is constructing at the SINES Refinery in Portugal. Foster... Read more..

Foster Wheeler Announces Proposed Redomestication from Bermuda to Switzerland

Foster Wheeler Ltd. announced that its board of directors has unanimously approved the redomestication of the company from Bermuda to Switzerland. Foster Wheeler’s shareholders will be asked to vote in favor of the proposal at a shareholders meeting expected to be scheduled for January 2009. If approved by shareholders, and subject to the approval of the Supreme Court of Bermuda and satisfaction of certain other conditions described in the company’s... Read more..

Foster Wheeler Awarded Contract for New Refinery in Libya

Foster Wheeler Ltd. announced that its Milan-based subsidiary Foster Wheeler Italiana S.p.A., part of its Global Engineering and Construction Group, has been awarded a contract by Zwara Oil Refinery Company Limited (ZORCO) for consultancy and project management services for a planned new 200,000 barrels per stream day crude oil refinery at Mellita, near Zwara, in the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. ZORCO is a project company in... Read more..

Foster Wheeler Awarded Coal-to-Liquids Feasibility Study in China

Foster Wheeler Ltd. announced that its subsidiaries, Foster Wheeler Energy Limited and Foster Wheeler International Engineering & Consulting (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., together with its consortium partner, Wuhuan Engineering Company, have been awarded contracts by Sasol Synfuels International (Proprietary) Limited (Sasol) and Shenhua Ningxia Coal Industry Group Company Ltd. (Shenhua) to perform a feasibility study for an 80,000 barrels per day coal-to-liquids... Read more..

Sasol Announces Reduction of Its Economic Interest in the Escravos Gas-to-Liquids Project

On 13 May Sasol reported that the capital cost of the Escravos gas-to-liquids project (EGTL) under construction in Nigeria is expected to increase to US$6 billion and that Sasol was reviewing all the factors that have an impact on the project economics. On 3 September, Sasol and Chevron, partners in the project entered into a heads of agreement for Chevron to purchase an additional 27,5% in the EGTL project and Sasol to reduce its economic interest... Read more..

Foster Wheeler Enters into License Contract for Advanced Pulverized-Coal Technology in Korea

Foster Wheeler Ltd. announced today that a subsidiary of its Global Power Group has entered into a fifteen-year agreement with Bumwoo ENG Co., Ltd. to provide an advanced technology license for wall-fired subcritical and supercritical pulverized-coal (PC) steam generators to be sold in South Korea. The terms of the agreement were not disclosed. The contract value will be included in the company’s third-quarter 2008 bookings and future royalty payments... Read more..

Range Fuels Appoints Greg King to Board of Directors

Range Fuels, Inc., a company focused on green energy and the production of cellulosic ethanol, announced today that Greg King has joined the company’s Board of Directors. King brings a 15 year track record in the refining and marketing industry to the company. King currently serves as President of GCK Ventures, LLC, a private consulting firm. He was previously with Valero, North America’s largest refining company, most recently serving as the... Read more..

Foster Wheeler Awarded Conceptual & Basic Design of New Alcon Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Plant in Singapore

Foster Wheeler Ltd. announced today that its U.S. subsidiary, Biokinetics, Inc., along with Foster Wheeler’s Singapore office, both part of its Global Engineering and Construction Group, has been awarded a contract by Alcon Laboratories Inc. to provide engineering and architectural services for the conceptual and basic design of its new 250,000 square foot manufacturing facility to be located in the Tuas Biomedical Park in Singapore. The plant... Read more..