Foster Wheeler unit wins contract for Sasol's Temane Pande project

06-03-01 UK FWEL, a unit of US Foster Wheeler, has been awarded a contract to carry out the Basic Design and Engineering Package (BDEP) for Sasol Petroleum Temane's Temane Pande Development Project. This work will be executed in Foster Wheeler's Reading Oil and Gas Centre of Excellence, with support from Foster Wheeler's South African office. Sasol intends to convert its Sasolburg plant in South Africa to a natural gas feedstock, transported via an 895-km pipeline from its onshore gas fields, Temane and Pande, in Mozambique.
FWEL's scope of work covers the infield infrastructure associated with the development of both fields, from wellhead hook-up through to gas export from a central processing facility. The gathering system includes over 150km of flow lines. The Central Processing Facility will be built about 50 km north-west of Vilankulos and will process around 350 mm cfpd of gas, treating it to Sales Gas specification required for use in Sasol's plants and downstream customers.
Keith Batchelor, Director of Sales and Marketing, Foster Wheeler Energy Limited, said: "This award further strengthens Foster Wheeler's relationship with Sasol. We have worked very closely together over the last three years on gas-to-liquids and we are pleased to be able to extend our relationship to this upstream gas processing facility."

FWEL is an international project management, engineering and construction company offering a complete range of services worldwide to the energy and industrial sectors, principally serving the refining, petrochemical, chemical, oil and gas, and pharmaceutical/fine chemicals industries. The company, with over 80 years of experience and employing over 2,500 people, is headquartered in Reading with substantial full capability offices in Glasgow, Teesside, Johannesburg, Kuala Lumpur and Sriracha (Thailand). FWEL is a unit of Foster Wheeler, Clinton, New Jersey, USA.

Foster Wheeler South Africa has over 30 years of experience in South Africa and is headquartered in Midrand. It is a unit of Foster Wheeler Energy, which is headquartered in Reading, UK.