Amec Foster Wheeler announces the award of a technical services agreement contract by Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries Company SAOC (Orpic) for the Mina Al Fahal Refinery and Sohar Refinery, Aromatics and Polypropylene plants, Oman.

The value of the three-year contract, which starts immediately, is not disclosed.

Under the contract Amec Foster Wheeler will provide specialist process and technology engineering support, process safety improvement and maintenance programme support for the refineries and chemical plants. It includes an expert helpdesk service to trouble-shoot plant processes, optimise production, reduce energy and utilities costs and improve plant reliability, safety and environmental performance.

The contract will be executed using skills from the company’s Reading, UK, hub of expertise along with local skills in Oman.

Roberto Penno, Amec Foster Wheeler Group President for Asia, Middle East, Africa & Southern Europe, said: “This contract opens up exciting opportunities for us to deliver for a new client in a growth region. The agreement covers a wide range of our capabilities including increasing optimisation and we look forward to being able to demonstrate and deliver our capabilities for Orpic.”

About Amec Foster

Amec Foster Wheeler (www.amecfw.com) designs, delivers and maintains strategic and complex assets for its customers across the global energy and related sectors.

With pro-forma 2013 annualised scope revenues of £5.5 billion and over 40,000 employees in more than 50 countries, the company operates across the whole of the oil and gas industry – from production through to refining, processing and distribution of derivative products – and in the mining, clean energy, power generation, pharma, environment and infrastructure markets.

Within our nuclear business, we stand out for our ability to bring world-leading expertise, technology and scientific capabilities to customers’ challenges. With 3,300 nuclear specialists around the world, we’re able to support our customers with local expertise. We have been delivering in the nuclear sector since the beginning and have played a critical role in major nuclear projects around the world.

Amec Foster Wheeler shares are publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange and its American Depositary Shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Both trade under the ticker AMFW.

See the site of the the Mina Al Fahal Refinery
See the site of the Sohar Refinery