September 2010 Vol. 237 No. 9

Projects

Foster Wheeler Wins Iraqi Contract

Foster Wheeler’s Global Engineering and Construction Group won a project management consultancy services contract from South Oil Company (SOC) for the Iraq Crude Oil Export Expansion Project onshore in southern Iraq and offshore in Iraqi waters. SOC is a company under the Iraq Ministry of Oil.

The project will include installation of two onshore and offshore pipelines plus three single point moorings and a central manifold and metering platform. Scheduled for completion by July 2013, the project is expected to boost Iraq’s Basra export capacity from 1.8 MMbpd to 4.5 MMbpd by 2014.