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KBR has been awarded, through a competitive procurement process, a contract by the United States Department of State to design and build a New Embassy Compound (NEC) in Skopje, Macedonia. When built, the NEC will consist of a new office building, support annex, utility building and compound access control facilities. These new facilities will be built with improved security measures in an effort to protect personnel and discourage assailants from nearing the facilities, lessening the damage in the event of an attack. KBR is the engineering, construction and services subsidiary of Halliburton.
While Americans prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving Day with family reunions and large amounts of turkey and dressing, Halliburton is also planning to serve a Thanksgiving feast with all the trimmings to the troops currently deployed in the Middle East and Central Asia.
KBR's proprietary SCORET (Selective Cracking Optimum REcovery) ethylene technology has been selected by PT Chandra Asri Petrochemical in West Java, Indonesia, for an ethylene furnace expansion. KBR has signed agreements to provide the technology license and begin design work on the furnace design. KBR is the engineering and construction subsidiary of Halliburton.
KBR announced today that it has received a letter of intent (LOI) from Ballance Agri-Nutrients (Kapuni) Limited of New Zealand for engineering and license agreements for the revamp of Ballance's 440 tonnes per day (tpd) ammonia production facilities in Kapuni, New Zealand. KBR's proprietary Reforming Exchanger System (KRES) ammonia technology has been selected for the revamp. KBR is the engineering, construction and services subsidiary of Halliburton.
Motiva Enterprises LLC, a joint venture between Shell Oil Company and Saudi Refining Inc, has selected KBR to provide conceptualization, planning and early design services for a major refinery expansion being considered by Motiva in the United States. This 325,000 barrel per day (BPD) capacity increase will be designed to process heavy sour crudes. KBR is the engineering, construction and services subsidiary of Halliburton.
Halliburton announced today that Cedric Burgher, 45, has been named senior vice president and chief financial officer of KBR, the engineering and construction subsidiary of Halliburton. The appointment is effective November 7 and he will be based in KBR's Houston office.
Navajo Refining Company, L.P., Inc. a subsidiary of Holly (NYSE: HOC) will utilize KBR's ROSE® Solvent Deasphalting Process at its 75,000 BPD refinery located in Artesia, New Mexico. The ROSE unit will deasphalt vacuum residue. The deasphalted oil (DAO) extracted by the ROSE process will be low in contaminants like sulfur, metals and Conradson carbon (CCR), and will be a premium feed for the refinery's fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) unit. KBR is the engineering, construction and services subsidiary of Halliburton.
KBR announced today that the joint venture between KBR and JGC Corporation of Japan recently executed a contract with Peru LNG Company, LLC (PLNG) for the preparation of the lump sum turnkey (LSTK) price for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility to be located in Pampa Melchorita, Peru. This 4.45 million metric tons per year (MMTPA) grassroots facility will be Latin America's first LNG export facility. KBR is the engineering, construction and services subsidiary of Halliburton.
KBR has successfully completed the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC), and is supplying start-up and operations support services for a major expansion to Innovene's, a wholly-owned subsidiary of BP, largest single olefins site at Chocolate Bayou, just south of downtown Houston. Using KBR's Selective Cracking Optimum REcovery (SCORET) ethylene process, the expansion project adds 650 million pounds per year of ethylene capacity to the site, making it one of the largest olefins capacity expansions in North America in 2005. The project successfully produced prime product within just 26 hours of feedstock being introduced. KBR is the engineering and construction subsidiary of Halliburton.
KBR, the engineering, construction and services subsidiary of Halliburton, and JGC Corporation (TOKSE: 1963.T) announced today that Qatar Shell GTL Limited, a Royal Dutch Shell plc subsidiary, has executed a letter of intent to award a project management contract for the Pearl Gas to Liquids (GTL) project in Ras Laffan, Qatar, to a joint venture between JGC and KBR.
KBR's ROSET Solvent Deasphalting technology has been selected by Shell Canada Limited for use at its Scotford Upgrader located near Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. This ROSE unit, which would be part of Shell Canada's Upgrader Expansion, is designed to deasphalt hydrocracked atmospheric residue. KBR is the engineering, construction and services subsidiary of Halliburton.
KBR announced today that Yemen LNG (YLNG) Company Ltd. has awarded KBR and its joint venture partners, Technip of France and JGC Corporation of Japan, a lump-sum turnkey contract valued at more than $2 billion to provide engineering, procurement, construction, pre-commissioning, commissioning, start-up and operations services for the country's first liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant. KBR is the engineering, construction and services subsidiary of Halliburton.
KBR announced today that it has renewed its Natural Gas Alliance with JGC Corporation, thereby enabling the two companies to continue working together to offer valuable engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning and start-up services to Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) and Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) customers worldwide. KBR is the engineering, construction and services subsidiary of Halliburton.
KBR, a subsidiary of Halliburton, and its joint venture partners have been awarded a Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) contract and option for an Engineering, Procurement and Construction Management (EPCM) contract for the Greater Gorgon Downstream LNG Project. The Downstream project will include two LNG processing trains, each with a capacity of 5 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) to be located on Barrow Island, Western Australia. The work will be undertaken by the Kellogg Joint Venture - Gorgon (KJVG), an unincorporated joint venture, comprising KBR (30%), JGC Corporation (30%), Hatch (20%) and Clough (20%).
Kellogg Brown & Root Services, the Government and Infrastructure division of KBR, (KBR) has been selected to continue its services as the premier logistics support provider to U.S. forces deployed in the Balkans region, and to provide similar contingency operations support through the United States Army Europe (USAREUR)'s area of responsibility. KBR is the engineering, construction and services subsidiary of Halliburton.
KBR has been awarded a contract for a Licensor Engineering Package for conversion of BP West Coast Products, LLC's Carson, California refinery's MTBE unit to the production of iso-octene. Iso-octene is subsequently converted to iso-octane gasoline blend stock. KBR is the engineering, construction and services subsidiary of Halliburton.
The joint venture team of KBR, the engineering and construction subsidiary of Halliburton, JGC Corporation of Japan and Technip have been awarded a Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) contract for the Angola LNG Project, to be constructed near Soyo in Northern Angola, approximately 300 kilometers north of Luanda. The five million tonnes per year LNG facility will be operated by a new company to be formed by Sonangol (the Angola national oil company), ChevronTexaco, BP, ExxonMobil and Total.
The joint venture team of KBR, the engineering and construction subsidiary of Halliburton, Snamprogetti, the engineering and main contracting company of Italy's Eni, and JGC of Japan has been awarded the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for the Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL)/Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) gas to liquids (GTL) facility in Escravos, Nigeria. The Escravos site is located approximately 100 kilometers southeast of Lagos. NNPC holds 25 percent equity in the Escravos plant with CNL, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ChevronTexaco, holding the remaining 75 percent.
KBR, the engineering, construction and services subsidiary of Halliburton, has been awarded a contract by Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Company, Ltd. (DSME) to provide engineering design and procurement services for the topsides for ChevronTexaco's Agbami floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel. Star Deep Water Petroleum, ChevronTexaco's Nigerian subsidiary, awarded DSME the engineering, procurement, construction and integration (EPCI) contract to construct the vessel's moorings, hull and topsides and the commissioning of the vessel. The Agbami FPSO will be located offshore Nigeria, approximately 220 miles southeast of Lagos. Star Deep Water Petroleum is targeting the project to be complete with first oil production by 1Q2008. Other partners in the project include Texaco Nigeria Outer Shelf Inc. (a ChevronTexaco affiliate), Petroleo Brasileiro Nigeria Limited, Statoil Nigeria Limited, Famfa Oil Limited and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
Halliburton announced today that the U.S. Army Field Support Command (AFSC) and Halliburton subsidiary KBR have completed the definitization of 27 outstanding task orders, valued at more than $10.5 billion, related to support KBR provided the U.S. military during Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. The support was provided under the competitively awarded Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (LOGCAP) III contract. The company announced at the same time that it has reached an agreement with the Army on an issue of billings for food service provided to troops in Iraq.
KBR's ammonia synthesis loop technology has been selected by Yunnan Tianan Chemical Company, Ltd., (TACC) for its 500,000 MTPY (metric ton per year) coal-based ammonia plant located in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China. This is the first contract under which KBR will provide licensing and engineering services directly for the supply of the synthesis loop technology to a large coal-based ammonia plant in China. KBR is the engineering and construction subsidiary of Halliburton. TACC is owned by Yunnan Yuntianhua Company, Ltd., and Yunnan Provincial Development & Investment Ltd.
Four employees from KBR, the engineering and construction subsidiary of Halliburton, were bestowed with the Commander's Award for Public Service during a private ceremony in Baghdad, Iraq, on February 25. The service award is one of the highest civilian honors issued by the U.S. Department of the Army. It was awarded, in this case, to the four men for their quick response in providing aid to persons injured in a terrorist bombing in Baghdad last fall.
Eos, a joint venture between KBR and WorleyParsons, has been awarded a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract for the proposed Angel gas production platform by Woodside Energy Ltd, operator of the North West Shelf Venture. The contract is part of the development of the Angel gas field off Karratha in Western Australia. KBR is the engineering and construction subsidiary of Halliburton.
KBR, a subsidiary of Halliburton, today announced the completion of its Al Ameen power substation project, the largest substation in Iraq, outside of Baghdad.
A joint operation between PT Brown & Root Indonesia, a subsidiary of KBR, JGC Corporation (JGC) of Japan and PT Pertafenikki Engineering (PFN) of Indonesia has been awarded the engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning (EPCC) contract by BP Berau, Ltd. for the Tangguh LNG plant at Teluk Bintuni, Papua Province, Republic of Indonesia. BP is the operator of the Tangguh project. KBR is the engineering and construction subsidiary of Halliburton.
Halliburton announced today that its KBR subsidiary and Petrobras have reached a key milestone in the development of the Barracuda and Caratinga offshore fields in Brazil. The Caratinga Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel, P-48, achieved first oil production on February 28, 2005, at the Caratinga field in the Campos Basin.
KBR Production Services has been awarded a contract to provide engineering and support services to the Badr Petroleum Company (Bapetco) for three new but related projects for the Obaiyed Gas Plant in Egypt. Bapetco is jointly owned by the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) and Shell Egypt N.V. KBR is the engineering and construction subsidiary of Halliburton Company.
KBR, the engineering and construction subsidiary of Halliburton, officially opened its newest engineering center in Jakarta, Indonesia today. The Jakarta engineering center is part of KBR's Energy and Chemicals Division and will provide competitive engineering services to local, regional and international clients. The Jakarta office is part of KBR's worldwide network of engineering centers and has access to the full complement of technology tools, resources, systems and processes used by KBR offices globally.
KBR in the UK has been appointed by the Ministry of Defence to be the preferred Physical Integrator for the Future Aircraft Carrier Programme (CVF), under which two new aircraft carriers are required to be delivered to the MoD with target in-service dates of 2012 and 2015. KBR will join the existing CVF Alliance between the MoD, BAE Systems and Thales UK, and will work with all potential UK shipyard manufacturing facilities and Alliance participants to formulate and deliver a cost-effective strategy for the manufacturing element of the ship build program. KBR is a subsidiary of Halliburton.
Halliburton confirmed today that the Army Field Support Command (AFSC) has informed KBR that the Army Materiel Command (AMC) has approved AFSC's request for a deviation from the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) clause that could impose a 15 percent withholding on future invoices to the U.S. Government under the LOGCAP III contract. KBR is a subsidiary of Halliburton.
KBR, a subsidiary of Halliburton, and its joint venture partners are celebrating the successful achievement of the first LNG shipment from the SEGAS LNG liquefaction facility located in the port of Damietta in northern Egypt. The project sets a new industry benchmark as the largest capacity single LNG train facility ever built, with a capacity of approximately 5 million tonnes per annum (MTPA). The project is expected to generate substantial export earnings for Egypt, which has now become the thirteenth nation to export LNG.
The Southern Division Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFACENGCOM) announced today that KBR is one of four contractors awarded a U.S. Navy Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Multiple Award Construction Contract (MACC) to repair northwest Florida Navy facilities damaged by Hurricane Ivan. KBR was also selected as the contractor for the initial task order on this project. KBR is the engineering and construction subsidiary of Halliburton.
KBR, the engineering and construction subsidiary of Halliburton, has been awarded a license and basic design engineering package to provide its state-of-the-art Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) technology for the revamping of the regeneration section of the FCC unit at a 250M BBL/day refinery located in Southern California. KBR and ExxonMobil's unique FCC Counter-Current Regeneration technology (LoNOx) improves the operating performance of FCC units, as well as reduces emissions of NOx and CO from the regenerator, allowing the refiner to meet air quality targets.
KBR, a subsidiary of Halliburton, and its joint venture partners have been issued with a Letter of Authorisation (LOA) by ChevronTexaco Australia (Operator of the Gorgon project) to perform pre-FEED work for the Gorgon Downstream LNG project. The Gorgon project is a grassroots LNG facility to be located on Barrow Island in Western Australia, and will include two LNG processing trains, each with a capacity of 5 million tonnes per annum (MTPA). The Kellogg Joint Venture - Gorgon (KJV-G) includes KBR, JGC Corporation of Japan, and Australian-based partners Clough Projects Australia Pty Ltd. and Hatch Associates Pty Ltd.
Halliburton announced today that its subsidiary, KBR, has been granted continued approval of its estimating system by the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA). The DCMA is the United States Government agency that has the authority to make final decisions and judgments about the adequacy of the Company's business systems.
Halliburton announced today that the District Court's affirmation order and the Bankruptcy Court's order confirming the plan of reorganization filed by DII Industries, Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) and other affected Halliburton subsidiaries are now final and non-appealable.