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Contract for Refining Unit at Antwerp, Belgium.


Energy Editors/Business Editors

PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 3, 2003

Technip-Coflexip (NYSE NYSE

See: New York Stock Exchange
:TKP TKP Türkiye Komünist Partisi (Communist Party of Turkey; formerly Sosyalist Iktidar Partisi, Party of Socialist Power)
TKP Tulajdonképpen (Hungarian)
TKP Tausender-Kontaktpreis
TKP Tamarind Kernel Powder
) (Euronext:13170) has recently been awarded, by TotalFinaElf, the design and construction of a gasoline hydrotreating unit for its refinery at Antwerp in Belgium.

The contract is worth about 50 million euros.

The aim of the project, called the "Clean Gasoline Project," is to hydrotreat the gasolines from the FCC (1) (Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC, www.fcc.gov) The U.S. government agency that regulates interstate and international communications including wire, cable, radio, TV and satellite. The FCC was created under the U.S.  unit without lowering the octane rating Noun 1. octane rating - a measure of the antiknock properties of gasoline
octane number

quantity, measure, amount - how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify
. The unit will use the "PRIME G+" process licensed by Axens (IFP (1) (Intelligent Forms Processing) Using advanced techniques to scan documents and determine their data content. See ICR.

(2) (Integer Factorization Problem) The difficulty of finding prime numbers in an encryption key.
) and will have a capacity of 57,500 BPSD BPSD Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia
BPSD Barrels Per Stream Day
BPSD Bethel Park School District (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) 
.

The "Clean Gasoline Project" will allow the production of gasolines with a sulfur content below 10 ppm. The Antwerp refinery will thus comply with the 2008 European standards concerning the quality of refined gasolines.

Under the terms of the contract, Technip-Coflexip's engineering center based in Paris will handle engineering, equipment and materials procurement, works subcontracting, construction supervision and precommissioning operations.

The contract is in force. Construction completion is scheduled for the end of August 2004. The unit should be ready for start-up on Oct. 20, 2004.

With a workforce of about 19,000, Technip-Coflexip ranks among the top five in the field of oil, gas and petrochemical engineering, construction and services. Headquartered in Paris, the Group is listed in New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 (NYSE:TKP) and in Paris (Euronext:13170). The main engineering and business centers of Technip-Coflexip are located in France, Italy, Germany, the UK, Norway, Finland, the Netherlands, the United States, Brazil, Abu-Dhabi, China, India, Malaysia and Australia. The Group has high-quality industrial and construction facilities in France, Brazil, the UK, the USA, and Finland as well as a world class fleet of offshore construction vessels.

Statements in this news release other than historical financial information are forward-looking statements subject to risks and uncertainties. Actual results could differ materially depending on factors such as capital expenditures in the oil and gas industry, the timing of development of offshore energy resources, materialization of construction risks, the strength of competition, interest rate movements and stability in developing countries.
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