British consultancy company Amec Foster Wheeler has won the engineering and project management services contract to conduct the basic engineering design study for the upgrade of the Cilacap refinery in Central Java. The contract has been awarded by the $5 billion JV of Saudi Aramco and Indonesia’s state oil company Pertamina. The upgrade is scheduled to be completed by 2022. The capacity of the refinery will be increased by about 6 per cent to 370,000 barrels per day (bpd), and enable it to process more sour crude oil grades and produce a wider slate of products. The deal is a step towards the $25 billion refining development master plan (RDMP) set out by the government in 2015 to overhaul the energy sector. The RDMP aims to double Indonesia’s domestic refining capacity to 1.68 million bpd by 2025.
