CAPITAL: Warsaw

MONETARY UNIT: Zloty

REFINING CAPACITY: 365,200 b/cd

OIL PRODUCTION: 6,500 b/d

OIL RESERVES: 40.1 million bbl

GAS RESERVES: 5.3 tcf

Rafineria Gdanska SA, a unit of state-owned Nafta Polska, let two contracts valued at about $30 million to Fluor Corp. unit Fluor Daniel as part of a $400 million refinery modernization at the 60,000 b/cd Gdansk refinery.

Fluor Daniel was managing contractor and detailed engineering design contractor for offsites and utilities. With Polish partner companies in which it had interests, Prosynchem and Prochem, Fluor Daniel was managing design, procurement, and construction of various units, including the hydrocracker, hydrogen plant, sulfur plant, isomerization unit, and reformer.

Completion was set for third quarter 1999. Plant capacity will increase to 90,000 b/cd.

Mazovian Refinery & Petrochemical Works SA, Plock, let a $25 million lump-sum contract to Technip subsidiary Technipetrol SpA, Rome, for services relating to construction of an 8,300 b/d isomerization unit and revamping of a 10,100 b/d reformer at the Gdansk refinery.

Both units were to use UOP technology. The contract included basic and detailed engineering, procurement, commissioning and start-up services, construction assistance, and training services.

Elsewhere, work scheduled to begin during fall 1997 on the new Poludnie refinery at Kedzierzyn, 57 km west of Katowice in southern Poland, called for petrochemical plant construction to precede construction on the planned 120,000 b/cd refining complex. Construction of the refining/petrochemical complex was scheduled for completion by 2010.

Feedstock for the petrochemical facilities will come from the 9,400 b/cd refinery at Cziechowice, 75 km to the southeast. The Cziechowice plant was to be expanded to 40,000 b/cd.

A further 80,000 b/d of feedstock for the Poludnie plant must come from elsewhere once the petrochemical complexes have been completed. This extra feedstock was expected to come from the 260,000 b/cd Plock refinery. A 6,000 b/cd ethylene cracker was to be built at Kedzierzyn plus polyethylene, butadiene, and methyl tertiary butyl ethylene facilities.

Further downstream, Enron Global Power & Pipelines LLC identified a proposed 116-MW, natural gas-fired cogeneration power plant at Nowa Sarzyna as a designated development project.

In April 1997, Enron unit Elektrocieplownia Nowa Sarzyna Sp. z.o.o. (ENS) signed a 20-year power purchase agreement with the Polish Power Grid Co. for plant development. The plant, to be located at Organika Sarzyna Chemical Works` complex, had a capital cost of $120 million. ENS was to provide steam to the complex and to Nowa Sarzyna.

Enron owns 97.5% and JAC (Poland) Ltd., Warsaw, the remainder. Construction was slated to begin in fall 1997.