Featured Articles
KBR's Green Efforts Featured in Civil Engineering Magazine
November 13, 2009
KBR's green initiatives and sustainable development efforts were featured in the November issue of Civil Engineering Magazine. KBR's core values of health, safety and environment were highlighted along with our partnerships with local environmental nonprofits.
Newsweek ranks KBR in Magazine’s First “Green Rankings”
September 22, 2009
KBR was ranked in Newsweek's first ever “Green Rankings”. The top 500 publically-traded corporations were ranked based on industry-neutral metrics that incorporated the company's environmental policies and reputation. KBR's overall ranking was 28th in the Industry Sector and 262nd in the Top 500 ranking. Scores from the Environmental Impact survey, Green Policies and Performance survey and Reputation Survey were included in the overall ranking.
Downstream Today Interviews KBR’s John Quinn
September 7, 2009
Process engineers have long endorsed the concept of integrating refineries and petrochemical plants within a single complex. For many years, international oil companies resisted this approach and continued to follow the traditional business model of maintaining refineries and petrochemical plants at separate locations. Now, as downstream facilities proliferate throughout the Middle East and Asia Pacific, integrated complexes are increasingly becoming the norm in these growing markets. As a major oil and gas engineering, construction, and services company, KBR is helping to make that happen. Read more...
KBR Featured in Military Logistics Forum
August 2009
Military Logistics Forum recently had the opportunity to talk with senior representatives from KBR Government and Infrastructure, Dyncorp International and Fluor Government Group, the three primes of the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program IV (LOGCAP). Read more...
KBR Chief Positions Company For Post-Halliburton World
August 12, 2009
Putting problem projects, corruption settlements and a bumpy association with Halliburton behind, KBR Inc. is trying to carve a new role as a global engineering and construction player, with a focus on energy and industrial megaprojects, said William P. Utt, chairman, president and CEO, in a wide-ranging interview with ENR editors. But he noted that the Houston-based firm is still committed to military and government support work even as it faces continuing questions related to work in Iraq. Read more...
KBR's Technology Business Featured in Houston Chronicle
August 9, 2009
When it comes to production of corn-based ethanol, Houston will never be Iowa. But the nation's energy capital could have a role to play in moving the alternative fuel beyond corn and into a next wave of innovation. Read more...
PTQ – Petroleum Technology Quarterly
Q3 2009
Manoj Nagvekar, Technology Manager, CO2 Management and Michael Keaton, Chief Technical Advisor address the future scope of carbon capture projects and the state of IT assets in hydrocarbon processing facilities.
Hydrocarbon Processing
July 2009
KBR's new approach to FLNG was featured in the July 2009 edition of Hydrocarbon Processing. The article entitled, “Consider a New Approach for FLNG - Combined technical expertise for onshore and offshore LNG facilities reduces risks and capital costs for new installations” was authored by KBR’s Christopher Caswell, Charles Durr, Ernest Rost and Mark Kilcran. This paper was also featured at Gastech 2009.
KBR Business Feature Published in Houston Chronicle
March 13, 2009
With a major foreign bribery case recently settled, other legal issues wrapping up and its financial performance improving, KBR is finally moving forward, less burdened than ever before by the weight of its past. Read more...