The coker design package will be developed by Foster Wheeler"s Houston office. Terms of the award were not disclosed.

The delayed coker, expected to be one of the largest in the world, will be based on Foster Wheeler"s selective yield delayed coking (SYDEC) process, which upgrades heavy, high-sulfur residue feed into high value transport fuels with minimum fuel coke yields.

The planned Jubail refinery will be a grassroots full-conversion plant designed to process Arabian heavy crude. It is slated for startup in 2011 (OGJ Online, Sept. 4, 2006).

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