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Foster Wheeler Wins BP Spanish Coker Heater Contract.


HAMILTON, Bermuda -- Foster Wheeler Ltd. (Nasdaq: FWLT) today announced that its subsidiary Foster Wheeler Iberia, S.A., part of its Global Engineering and Construction Group, has been awarded a contract by BP Oil Refineria de Castellon, S.A. (BP) for the thermal design, engineering, procurement and material supply of a 43.5 megawatt meg·a·watt  
n. Abbr. MW
One million watts.



mega·watt
 double-fired TERRACE-WALL(TM) delayed coker A delayed coker is a type of coker whose process consists of heating the residual oil feed to its thermal cracking temperature in a multi parallel pass furnace. This cracks the long chain heavy carbon and hydrogen molecules of the residual oil into coker gas oil and pet coke.  heater for a new delayed coker to be built at BP's Castellon Refinery in Spain. The terms of the award were not disclosed. The project was included in Foster Wheeler's second-quarter 2006 bookings.

The Foster Wheeler TERRACE-WALL(TM)delayed coker heater is an integral component of the Foster Wheeler Selective Yield Delayed Coking (SYDEC(SM)) process technology, which was selected by BP for the new coker. Foster Wheeler completed the process design package and front-end engineering design for the new coker, and has also been awarded the detailed engineering, procurement and construction The introduction to this article is vague. To comply with Wikipedia's guidelines, it should be improved.  supervision for the new coker under a separately announced contract.

"We are very pleased with this latest award from BP, which confirms our long track record and experience in the design of delayed coker heaters, the heart of the Foster Wheeler delayed coking process," commented Jesus Cadenas, managing director, Foster Wheeler Iberia, S.A. "Since 1965, Foster Wheeler Iberia has designed and supplied eleven heaters for the BP Castellon Refinery and has been involved in many of the major projects carried out in this refinery."

Foster Wheeler is a market leader in the supply of delayed coking fired heaters and has supplied more than 80 units worldwide.

Notes to Editors:

1. Foster Wheeler Ltd. is a global company offering, through its subsidiaries, a broad range of engineering, procurement, construction, manufacturing, project development and management, research and plant operation services. Foster Wheeler serves the refining, upstream oil and gas, LNG LNG (liquefied natural gas): see under natural gas.  and gas-to-liquids, petrochemicals, chemicals, power, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and healthcare industries. The corporation is based in Hamilton, Bermuda, and its operational headquarters are in Clinton, New Jersey
see also: Clinton Township, New Jersey


Clinton is a Town in Hunterdon County, New Jersey on the South Branch of the Raritan River. As of the United States 2000 Census, the town population was 2,632.
, USA. For more information about Foster Wheeler, visit our Web site at http://www.fwc.com.

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, could cause business conditions and results to differ materially from what is contained in forward-looking statements: changes in the rate of economic growth in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area.  and other major international economies; changes in investment by the power, oil and gas, pharmaceutical and chemical/petrochemical industries; changes in the financial condition of the Company's customers; changes in regulatory environment; changes in project design or schedules; contract cancellations; changes in the Company's estimates of costs to complete projects; changes in trade, monetary and fiscal policies worldwide; currency fluctuations; war and/or terrorist attacks on facilities either owned or where equipment or services are or may be provided; outcomes of pending and future litigation, including litigation regarding the Company's liability for damages and insurance coverage for asbestos exposure; protection and validity of the Company's patents and other intellectual property rights; increasing competition by foreign and domestic companies; compliance with the Company's debt covenants; recoverability of claims against the Company's customers and others by the Company and claims by third parties against the Company; and changes in estimates used in the Company's critical accounting policies. Other factors and assumptions not identified above were also involved in the formation of these forward-looking statements and the failure of such other assumptions to be realized, as well as other factors, may also cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. Most of these factors are difficult to predict accurately and are generally beyond the Company's control. You should consider the areas of risk described above in connection with any forward-looking statements that may be made by the Company. Foster Wheeler undertakes no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. You are advised, however, to consult any additional disclosures the Company makes in proxy statements, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, annual reports on Form 10-K Form 10-K

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