12 January 2015
London, United Kingdom (12 January 2015)
– Amec Foster Wheeler announces today it has signed an agreement with
D’Arcinoff Group, a US-based investment and alternative technology
development company, to provide engineering and technical services for
an integrated 30,000 barrels per day syngas-to-liquids facility, known
as the West Texas Renewable and Gas Monetisation Project in Hudspeth
County, Texas. The facility will primarily produce jet fuels.
The contract value for the competitively awarded project was not disclosed.
The
West Texas Renewable and Gas Monetisation Project is part of the
D’Arcinoff Group Energy Program, an environmentally clean, natural gas
and biomass-to liquid-fuel and power generation initiative.
Amec
Foster Wheeler’s scope of work includes engineering design and
definition work utilizing key process technology and equipment
suppliers, as well as execution planning activities for the facility
that will use biomass gasification combined with West Texas shale gas to
feed a Fischer Tropsch process unit to produce jet fuel.
Simon
Naylor, Group President Americas said: “This award confirms our
combined technical expertise in gasification, gas monetisation and
gas-to-liquids projects following separate work streams. Foster Wheeler
completed the initial feasibility study for the new jet fuel facility,
and separately, Amec had worked with some of the key process technology
suppliers included in the plans for this innovative project.”
"This
agreement is an important milestone that puts D’Arcinoff Group on track
to deliver competitively priced, low carbon dioxide emissions jet fuel
to our important airline and other customers," said Michael C. Darcy,
CEO of the D’Arcinoff Group.