| Date |
Text |
| 1927 |
Foster Wheeler formed from a merger of the Power Speciality Company and the Wheeler Condenser & Engineering Company. |
| 1935 |
We received our first order for a complete oil refinery – in Uruguay |
| 1949 |
Foster Wheeler wins the contract to build Esso's new refinery at Fawley in the UK |
| 1972 |
Largest crude distillation built to date in Europe comes on stream at the Total/SFR refinery in Normandy, France – designed by Foster Wheeler |
| 1979 |
We receive our first major offshore project – the Fulmar project for Shell Expro in the UK North Sea |
| 1997 |
Foster Wheeler and BOC Gases celebrate the start-up of South America's largest hydrogen plant, in Venezuela |
| 1999 |
Completion of the Thai Aromatics Recovery Project for Esso Thailand, within budget and ahead of the contractual date. |
| 2000 |
We win a major contract for a grassroots bulk pharmaceutical manufacturing facility to be built in Singapore for Schering-Plough. |
| 2000 |
Oman LNG plant inaugurated: designed and built by Foster Wheeler in JV, with a world-class HSE, schedule and cost performance |
| 2002 |
We win the contract to design and build Mozambique 's first major upstream oil and gas development |
| 2003 |
Our skills continue to successfully transfer to new businesses. With our JV partner, we win the Goro Nickel project in New Caledonia |
| 2004 |
We win the contract for a major expansion of SHARQ's petrochemicals complex in Saudi Arabia |
| 2004 |
We win the FEED for Khurais, the largest crude increment program in Saudi Aramco's history |
| 2005 |
We start work on Lucite International's new methylmethacrylate facility in Singapore, which will use Lucite International's new state-of-the-art Alpha technology |
| 2006 |
The Oryx GTL plant in Qatar is inaugurated. Engineered by Foster Wheeler, this is a "world first": the first plant to convert natural gas to liquid fuel at commercial scale. |
| 2007 |
A Foster Wheeler-led JV is awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management contract for the onshore portion of Woodside's Pluto LNG Project in Western Australia. |
| 2007 |
A Foster Wheeler-led JV is awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management contract for the onshore portion of Woodside's Pluto LNG Project in Western Australia. |
| 2008 |
In the autumn, the first onshore LNG processing train in the world to be designed and constructed in modular form produces first LNG ahead of Woodside's target for export. The Foster Wheeler-led JV designed and built this state-of-the-art facility. |
| 2008 |
Foster Wheeler, together with a consortium partner in China, wins a feasibility study for a coal-to-liquids plant in China. |
| 2009 |
We are awarded the EPC and managing PMC contract for the new world-scale Paradip Refinery in India. |
| 2009 |
We celebrate! We win the prestigious Queen's Award for Enterprise in the International Trade category, the eighth time that a Foster Wheeler UK company has won a Queen's Award. |