Flint Hills contracts Wood Group for engineering of Corpus refinery upgrade

Wood Group is providing detailed engineering, procurement and other services to Flint Hills Resources for its Eagle Ford modification project at its Corpus Christi West refinery in South Texas, the companies announced on Thursday.

The project will enable the refinery to process 100% US crude, primarily from the Eagle Ford shale region, into transportation fuels. 

Wood Group Mustang successfully completed the conceptual and front-end engineering design phases of the project and is now providing detail engineering, procurement services, module fabrication oversight and construction engineering support services.

Work is being conducted in Houston and Bogota, Colombia, via a collaborative work share model that provides an efficient, effective solution for FHR, according to project officials.

“We are pleased that Flint Hills Resources selected Wood Group Mustang to be the engineer for its Project Eagle Ford," said Curt Watson, president of the process plants and industrial business at Wood Group Mustang. 

“Our project team has been engaged in this program since 2011 and has assisted FHR through each phase of the project’s evolution," he added.

Engineering is scheduled to be completed in mid-2016. Financial terms were not disclosed.