Foster Wheeler has been awarded the basic design engineering package (BDEP) and the EPC contract for a debottlenecking/revamp project at the MRC PSR-2 Melaka Refinery in Malaysia.

Foster Wheeler has been awarded a contract by Malaysian Refining Company (MRC), a joint venture between Petronas and ConocoPhillips, for the basic design engineering package (BDEP) and the engineering, procurement and construction management (EPC) for a debottlenecking/revamp project at the MRC PSR-2 Melaka Refinery in Malaysia. 'This award reflects our in-depth technical expertise in refining, our revamp experience, and our reputation as one of the leading EPC contractors in the industry,' said Aziz Ali, director, Foster Wheeler E+C (Malaysia): 'In addition, we have an extensive knowledge of this refinery, having been the MRC front-end engineering design contractor and project management consultant for the original PSR-2 facility, which was completed in 1999. We look forward to building upon our close working relationship with MRC and are committed to delivering a successful project which fully satisfies our client's business objectives'.

The debottlenecking and revamp project is expected to permit MRC to increase the overall refinery throughput from 130,000 to 175,000 barrels per day.

This project includes the revamp of the hydrocracker unit, significant modifications to the internals of the vacuum distillation and crude distillation units, the installation of additional heat exchangers, and modifications to other process units and associated offsites and utilities.

A contract at one of the UK's leading fabricators involved weld overlay cladding four very large elbows: cladding specialist Arc Energy Resources was one of only a few UK companies able to handle this.

Part of a contract awarded to one of the UK's leading fabricators, involved cladding four very large elbows. Weld overlay cladding specialist Arc Energy Resources was one of only a few companies able to handle the project. Salford-based Langfields is one of the UK's leading fabricators of components in nickel alloy, titanium and reactive metals.

Its welding teams, which are qualified to international standards, specialise in the production of pressure vessels, heat exchangers, pipelines and other equipment that is required to resist corrosion and/or elevated temperatures.

Customers include blue-chip companies in the chemical, pharmaceutical, offshore, marine, defence and nuclear industries.

When Langfields won a major contract from the Shell Stanlow Refinery, part of the project required overlaying four 36'' carbon steel elbows with stainless steel'.

As the company's senior welding engineer Wayne Griffiths explains, 'Finding a weld overlay cladding specialist that could meet the specification and delivery time wasn't easy.

The technical skills and knowledge of welding procedures required were so demanding that not many companies can, or even want to, handle this type of work.

Fortunately I had dealt previously with Arc Energy Resources and remembered that they had a lot of experience in the oil and gas industry, so we were able to ship the elbows to their factory in Gloucestershire for weld overlay cladding'.

Commenting for Arc Energy, sales director Alan Brown says: 'Elbows are always difficult to handle but to accommodate the unusually large diameters for this project we also needed to design and build two special jigs'.

To meet the tight delivery schedule both workstations operated 24 hours a day for the duration of the contract.

'In addition, Arc Energy was responsible for proving the quality of its cladding prior to delivery, by 100% non-destructive testing'.

Summing up for Langfields, Wayne Griffiths added: 'Arc Energy made an important contribution to the contract, meeting our quality and delivery expectations on a very difficult project'.

A contract at one of the UK's leading fabricators involved weld overlay cladding four very large elbows: cladding specialist Arc Energy Resources was one of only a few UK companies able to handle this.


Part of a contract awarded to one of the UK's leading fabricators, involved cladding four very large elbows. Weld overlay cladding specialist Arc Energy Resources was one of only a few companies able to handle the project. Salford-based Langfields is one of the UK's leading fabricators of components in nickel alloy, titanium and reactive metals.

Its welding teams, which are qualified to international standards, specialise in the production of pressure vessels, heat exchangers, pipelines and other equipment that is required to resist corrosion and/or elevated temperatures.

Customers include blue-chip companies in the chemical, pharmaceutical, offshore, marine, defence and nuclear industries.

When Langfields won a major contract from the Shell Stanlow Refinery, part of the project required overlaying four 36'' carbon steel elbows with stainless steel'.

As the company's senior welding engineer Wayne Griffiths explains, 'Finding a weld overlay cladding specialist that could meet the specification and delivery time wasn't easy.

The technical skills and knowledge of welding procedures required were so demanding that not many companies can, or even want to, handle this type of work.

Fortunately I had dealt previously with Arc Energy Resources and remembered that they had a lot of experience in the oil and gas industry, so we were able to ship the elbows to their factory in Gloucestershire for weld overlay cladding'.

Commenting for Arc Energy, sales director Alan Brown says: 'Elbows are always difficult to handle but to accommodate the unusually large diameters for this project we also needed to design and build two special jigs'.

To meet the tight delivery schedule both workstations operated 24 hours a day for the duration of the contract.

'In addition, Arc Energy was responsible for proving the quality of its cladding prior to delivery, by 100% non-destructive testing'.

Summing up for Langfields, Wayne Griffiths added: 'Arc Energy made an important contribution to the contract, meeting our quality and delivery expectations on a very difficult project'.

A new methanol project at Qinghai Zhonghao Natural Gas Chemical Co will use Johnson Matthey Catalysts and Davy Process Technology to supply methanol technology, basic engineering design and catalysts.

Johnson Matthey Catalysts (JM) and Davy Process Technology (DPT) are pleased to announce they have entered into contracts for a methanol technology licence, basic engineering design and catalysts with Qinghai Zhonghao Natural Gas Chemical Co, for their new methanol project. The project will use JM/DPT advanced steam reforming technology, methanol synthesis technology and catalysts for the production of 2000 tons per day of methanol from natural gas. The methanol plant will be built at a new production facility at Geermu City in Qinghai Province, China.

The basic engineering of the plant is currently being performed by DPT and the detailed engineering of the plant will be performed by Chengda Engineering Corporation of China.

The methanol technology has been chosen from an extensive portfolio of syngas and methanol synthesis processes developed and marketed by JM and DPT for use in gas and coal to chemicals plants.

As a supplier of both precious and base metal catalysts, Johnson Matthey Catalysts offers products for a diverse range of industries: from fuel cells and environmental catalysts to petrochemicals, edible oils and specialist oil and gas purification.

In addition JM also supplies a full range of catalysts for synthesis gas (syngas) and methanol and is able to custom manufacture Fischer Tropsch catalysts.