The contract has been awarded to Foster Wheeler’s subsidiary of its Global Engineering and Construction Group.
Value of the contract was not disclosed.
Under the CORU project, which is part of Gazpromneft’s Moscow Refinery Revamping and Upgrading Program, the company will upgrade and expand the refinery up to 2020 to process an additional six million tons of crude oil per year and produce transportation fuels to Euro-V standards.
Gazpromneft board deputy chairman Anatoli Moiceevich Cherner said the CORU Project is the most important investment for the Moscow Refinery.
"Timely completion and plant start-up are vital for our company, but completion of a strong FEED is a very important first step in the realization of this key project," Cherner added.
The CORU facilities are planned to include crude distillation and vacuum distillation units, a continuous catalytic reforming unit, a diesel hydrotreater, a gas plant with a liquefied petroleum gases sweetening unit and common utilities.
The FEED activities are expected to be completed in the final quarter of 2013, while the design documentation is scheduled for submission in the first quarter of 2014.
