IRVING, Texas & AL KHOBAR, Saudi Arabia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fluor
Corporation (NYSE: FLR) announced today that it was awarded the
engineering, procurement and construction of the Halliburton Specialty
Chemicals Manufacturing Reaction Plant located in the PlasChem Park,
Jubail, Saudi Arabia. Fluor booked the undisclosed contract value in the
fourth quarter of 2018.
“Having completed the front-end engineering design, we are pleased to
undertake the design and construction of this major investment that
accelerates Halliburton’s strategic expansion of its fast-growing
specialty chemicals business,” said Simon
Nottingham, president of Fluor’s Energy & Chemicals business in
Europe, Africa and the Middle East. “Fluor will use its full integrated
solutions portfolio and its local execution capabilities to optimize the
design and deliver a capital-efficient project with schedule certainty.”
The new chemicals facility will produce a wide range of specialty
chemical products and intermediates to supply both the upstream and
downstream oil and gas production industries. Fluor’s scope includes
engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning.
Fluor’s Al Khobar office in Saudi Arabia will lead the project with the
team that performed the previous front-end engineering design contract
and will be supported by Fluor’s global chemicals experts.
PlasChem
Park, located in Jubail Industrial City II next to Sadara’s new
manufacturing complex, is a 12-square-kilometer (4.6 square miles)
industrial space dedicated for the chemical and conversion industries.
About Fluor Corporation
Founded in 1912, Fluor
Corporation (NYSE: FLR) is a global engineering, procurement,
fabrication, construction and maintenance company that transforms the
world by building prosperity and empowering progress. Fluor serves its
clients by designing, building and maintaining safe, well executed,
capital-efficient projects around the world. With headquarters in
Irving, Texas, Fluor ranks 153 on the Fortune 500 list with
revenue of $19.5 billion in 2017 and has more than 56,000 employees
worldwide. For more information, please visit www.fluor.com
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