Fluor Selected for FEED on Refinery Upgrade for BP

Fluor Corporation has been awarded program management, construction management, and three major engineering and fabrication packages from BP Products North America Inc. for its $3 billion Canadian Heavy Crude Refinery Upgrade in Whiting, Indiana.

"We are very pleased that BP entrusts Fluor to manage and engineer one of the most significant capital investments in the history of BP's North American refining business," said Jeff Faulk, president of Fluor's Energy & Chemicals business group. "We have a long history of success working for BP, and we have been given the opportunity to further this success story at Whiting."

The scope of work that Fluor has been awarded includes the overall integrated program management and construction management; plus the independent engineering, procurement, and fabrication of three major work packages, including a revamped crude distillation unit, a gas oil hydrotreater and the refinery infrastructure facilities to support the additional heavy crude oil processing.

Front-end engineering design is currently under way at Fluor's Sugar Land, Texas, office.

Construction on the project is tentatively scheduled to begin in 2007, with completion by 2011. The construction workforce at the Whiting site is projected to be approximately 2,500 workers.

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Posted 02/11/06

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