Friday 26 / April / 2024
Muscat: Amec Foster Wheeler has announced the opening of a new office in the Sultanate. Establishing a permanent presence, there will support the transfer of the company's global experience and capabilities to Oman, while supporting the development of the next generation of local engineering professionals and builds upon the company's long history of delivering projects for customers in the country.
Recently, Amec Foster Wheeler has won a number of projects in Oman. These include a three-year technical services agreement contract awarded by Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries Company (Orpic) in 2015 for the Mina Al Fahal Refinery and Sohar Refinery, Aromatics and Polypropylene plants, both in Oman.
In 2015, the company was also awarded a contract by the Oman Tank Terminal Company (OTTCO) for the front-end engineering design of the Ras Markaz Crude Oil Park Project in Oman. This project involves phased development of a terminal designed to hold about 200 million barrels of crude oil, making it one of the largest oil storage facilities of its type. Amec Foster Wheeler has also recently completed Duqm Refinery’s Front End Engineering Design. This project is one of the main economic development schemes in Oman.
Amec Foster Wheeler has been active in the Middle East since 1930. Today, the company supplies a wide range of services and technology to all sectors of the process industry in the Middle East including environmental, oil and gas (both onshore and offshore), refining, petrochemicals and power. The company has an established presence in the region including UAE, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Qatar.
“I’m delighted that we can bring our global expertise and experience to Oman, supporting our customers in the country, as well as helping to build the local engineering capability for the future. The opening of this office is testament to our commitment to the country, and to the region as a whole,” Nick Shorten, Amec Foster Wheeler’s President, Upstream Capital Projects.
