| 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 new methylmethacrylate
facility in Singapore , which will use 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. |
