02-03-09 Technip has been awarded by LUKoil Neftochim Burgas a lump sum contract, worth approximately EUR 10 mm, for the front-end engineering design (FEED) of new units to be built at their refinery in Burgas, Bulgaria.

The contract covers:
-- four units based on Axens technology:
1) a residue hydrocracking unit with a capacity of 2.5 mm tpy,
2) a vacuum gasoil hydrocracking unit with a capacity of 1.8 mm tpy,
3) an amine unit,
4) a sour water stripper unit,
-- two hydrogen units based on Technip KTI technology, with a capacity of 7,500 kilograms per hour each,
-- relevant utilities and offsite facilities.

Technip's operating centre in Rome, Italy will execute the contract, which is scheduled to be completed in December 2009.