Fluor
Encyclopedia
Fluor Corporation is a publicly owned engineering
, procurement
, construction
, and maintenance services organization. Fluor is headquartered in the Las Colinas
area of Irving, Texas
. The company employs more than 41,000 international employees and maintains offices in over 25 countries. Fluor is a Fortune 500
and a S&P 500 company.
immigrant, in 1890 at Oshkosh, WI
as the Fluor Brothers Construction Company. In 1922 it was awarded a contract to build a natural gasoline
plant for Richfield Oil
so establishing its credentials in the construction of oil and gas facilities. It was first incorporated in 1924. In 1932 it was awarded its first major refinery
contract for Shell Oil
at Wood River
. It went on to secure its first major overseas contract for Aramco in Saudi Arabia
in 1947.
Then in 1955 it was contracted to undertake work for the US Air Force for work at the Dhahran
Air Base in Saudi Arabia
. It started offshore
operations in 1967 and built its first hydrocracker plant in 1968 for the American Oil Company
in Texas City.
In 1977 it acquired Daniel International Corporation and subsequently adopted the name Fluor Daniel for its main operating subsidiary.
In 1981 it acquired St. Joe Minerals
bringing ownership of large lead, zinc and coal operations (the company had built many of the support buildings for the company).
However, prices of metal dropped after the acquisition. In 1987 it sold its zinc operations to Horsehead Corporation.
In 1994 it sold its lead mines Doe Run Company
.
In 1995 the Company acquired ADP, a design and project management business, and in 1996 it bought Marshall Contractors.
In 2000 it spun off its coal operations to Massey Energy Corporation.
From 1998 until 2002, Philip J. Carroll
was the CEO. He is an alumnus of Tulane University
.
Prior to the relocation of the headquarters to Irving, Fluor had its headquarters in Aliso Viejo, California
. In 2006 Fluor began moving its headquarters to Irving, Texas
.
2009 marked Fluor's entrance in the Solar industry with a contract to design a 46MW Solar Thermal plant in a partnership with California based ESolar.
, manufacturing
, microelectronics
, mining
, power
, telecommunications and infrastructure
.
Fluor operates in five major business divisions, which are the following:
Oil & Gas - Primarily serving industries of Upstream oil and gas production, refining of downstream, petrochemical and chemicals.
Industrial & Infrastructure – business line that focused with transportation, wind power, mining and metals, life sciences, manufacturing, commercial and institution, telecommunications, microelectronics, and healthcare sectors.
Government – support operations for different U.S. Government agencies such as Department of Energy, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Defense.
Global Services – a wide range of customized engineering research and services for existing facilities, such as process and methods betterment and performance improvement.
Power – business division focused on providing full Engineering, Procurement, Construction, and Management Services for power generating markets that include gas fired, solid fueled, renewable energy, and nuclear.
completed in 1977, the $3.8bn Whiting
refinery modernization contract for BP
due to be completed in 2011 and the Eastern span replacement of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge due to be completed in 2013.
Fluor is also one of three companies awarded contracts under the LOGCAP
program (United States Army).
Engineering
Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...
, procurement
Procurement
Procurement is the acquisition of goods or services. It is favourable that the goods/services are appropriate and that they are procured at the best possible cost to meet the needs of the purchaser in terms of quality and quantity, time, and location...
, construction
Construction
In the fields of architecture and civil engineering, construction is a process that consists of the building or assembling of infrastructure. Far from being a single activity, large scale construction is a feat of human multitasking...
, and maintenance services organization. Fluor is headquartered in the Las Colinas
Las Colinas
Las Colinas is an upscale, developed area in the Dallas suburb of Irving, Texas.Due to its central location between Dallas and Fort Worth and its proximity to DFW Airport, Las Colinas has been a viable place in the Metroplex for corporate and business relocation.As a planned community, it has many...
area of Irving, Texas
Irving, Texas
Irving is a city located in the U.S. state of Texas within Dallas County. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city population was 216,290. Irving is within the Dallas–Plano–Irving metropolitan division of the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area, designated...
. The company employs more than 41,000 international employees and maintains offices in over 25 countries. Fluor is a Fortune 500
Fortune 500
The Fortune 500 is an annual list compiled and published by Fortune magazine that ranks the top 500 U.S. closely held and public corporations as ranked by their gross revenue after adjustments made by Fortune to exclude the impact of excise taxes companies collect. The list includes publicly and...
and a S&P 500 company.
History
The business was originally established by John Simon Fluor, a SwissSwitzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
immigrant, in 1890 at Oshkosh, WI
Oshkosh, Wisconsin
As of the census of 2000, there were 62,916 people, 24,082 households, and 13,654 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,662.2 people per square mile . There were 25,420 housing units at an average density of 1,075.6 per square mile...
as the Fluor Brothers Construction Company. In 1922 it was awarded a contract to build a natural gasoline
Gasoline
Gasoline , or petrol , is a toxic, translucent, petroleum-derived liquid that is primarily used as a fuel in internal combustion engines. It consists mostly of organic compounds obtained by the fractional distillation of petroleum, enhanced with a variety of additives. Some gasolines also contain...
plant for Richfield Oil
ARCO
Atlantic Richfield Company is an oil company with operations in the United States as well as in Indonesia, the North Sea, and the South China Sea. It has more than 1,300 gas stations in the western part of the United States. ARCO was originally formed by the merger of East Coast-based Atlantic...
so establishing its credentials in the construction of oil and gas facilities. It was first incorporated in 1924. In 1932 it was awarded its first major refinery
Refinery
A refinery is a production facility composed of a group of chemical engineering unit processes and unit operations refining certain materials or converting raw material into products of value.-Types of refineries:Different types of refineries are as follows:...
contract for Shell Oil
Shell Oil Company
Shell Oil Company is the United States-based subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, a multinational oil company of Anglo Dutch origins, which is amongst the largest oil companies in the world. Approximately 22,000 Shell employees are based in the U.S. The head office in the U.S. is in Houston, Texas...
at Wood River
Wood River, Illinois
Wood River is a city in Madison County, Illinois, United States. The population was 11,296 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Wood River is located at ....
. It went on to secure its first major overseas contract for Aramco in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , commonly known in British English as Saudi Arabia and in Arabic as as-Sa‘ūdiyyah , is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab World...
in 1947.
Then in 1955 it was contracted to undertake work for the US Air Force for work at the Dhahran
Dhahran
Dhahran is a city located in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province, and is a major administrative center for the Saudi oil industry. Large oil reserves were first identified in the Dhahran area in 1931, and in 1935 Standard Oil of California drilled the first commercially viable oil well...
Air Base in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , commonly known in British English as Saudi Arabia and in Arabic as as-Sa‘ūdiyyah , is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab World...
. It started offshore
Offshore (hydrocarbons)
"Offshore", when used relative to hydrocarbons, refers to an oil, natural gas or condensate field that is under the sea, or to activities or operations carried out in relation to such a field...
operations in 1967 and built its first hydrocracker plant in 1968 for the American Oil Company
Amoco
Amoco Corporation, originally Standard Oil Company , was a global chemical and oil company, founded in 1889 around a refinery located in Whiting, Indiana, United States....
in Texas City.
In 1977 it acquired Daniel International Corporation and subsequently adopted the name Fluor Daniel for its main operating subsidiary.
In 1981 it acquired St. Joe Minerals
St. Joe Minerals
St. Joe Minerals Corporation was the United States largest producer of lead and zinc when it merged with Fluor Corporation in 1981.St. Joe was founded at the St. Joseph Lead Company on March 25, 1864 by Lyman W. Gilbert, John E. Wylie, Edmund I. Wade, Wilmot Williams, James L. Dunham and James L....
bringing ownership of large lead, zinc and coal operations (the company had built many of the support buildings for the company).
However, prices of metal dropped after the acquisition. In 1987 it sold its zinc operations to Horsehead Corporation.
In 1994 it sold its lead mines Doe Run Company
Doe Run Company
Doe Run Resources Corporation is the largest integrated lead producer in North America and the largest primary lead producer in the western world...
.
In 1995 the Company acquired ADP, a design and project management business, and in 1996 it bought Marshall Contractors.
In 2000 it spun off its coal operations to Massey Energy Corporation.
From 1998 until 2002, Philip J. Carroll
Philip J. Carroll
Philip J. Carroll, Jr. is active in a variety of corporate and government roles.Carroll earned a Bachelor of science in Physics from Loyola University New Orleans in 1958 and a M.S...
was the CEO. He is an alumnus of Tulane University
Tulane University
Tulane University is a private, nonsectarian research university located in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States...
.
Prior to the relocation of the headquarters to Irving, Fluor had its headquarters in Aliso Viejo, California
Aliso Viejo, California
Aliso Viejo is a city in Orange County, California. It had a population of 47,823 as of the 2010 census, up from 40,166 as of the 2000 census. It became Orange County's 34th city on July 1, 2001, the only city in the county to incorporate since 2000...
. In 2006 Fluor began moving its headquarters to Irving, Texas
Irving, Texas
Irving is a city located in the U.S. state of Texas within Dallas County. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city population was 216,290. Irving is within the Dallas–Plano–Irving metropolitan division of the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area, designated...
.
2009 marked Fluor's entrance in the Solar industry with a contract to design a 46MW Solar Thermal plant in a partnership with California based ESolar.
Operations
The Company's clients include oil and gas, chemicals and petrochemicals, commercial and institutional, government services, life sciencesLife sciences
The life sciences comprise the fields of science that involve the scientific study of living organisms, like plants, animals, and human beings. While biology remains the centerpiece of the life sciences, technological advances in molecular biology and biotechnology have led to a burgeoning of...
, manufacturing
Manufacturing
Manufacturing is the use of machines, tools and labor to produce goods for use or sale. The term may refer to a range of human activity, from handicraft to high tech, but is most commonly applied to industrial production, in which raw materials are transformed into finished goods on a large scale...
, microelectronics
Microelectronics
Microelectronics is a subfield of electronics. As the name suggests, microelectronics relates to the study and manufacture of very small electronic components. Usually, but not always, this means micrometre-scale or smaller,. These devices are made from semiconductors...
, mining
Mining
Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, from an ore body, vein or seam. The term also includes the removal of soil. Materials recovered by mining include base metals, precious metals, iron, uranium, coal, diamonds, limestone, oil shale, rock...
, power
Electric power
Electric power is the rate at which electric energy is transferred by an electric circuit. The SI unit of power is the watt.-Circuits:Electric power, like mechanical power, is represented by the letter P in electrical equations...
, telecommunications and infrastructure
Infrastructure
Infrastructure is basic physical and organizational structures needed for the operation of a society or enterprise, or the services and facilities necessary for an economy to function...
.
Fluor operates in five major business divisions, which are the following:
Oil & Gas - Primarily serving industries of Upstream oil and gas production, refining of downstream, petrochemical and chemicals.
Industrial & Infrastructure – business line that focused with transportation, wind power, mining and metals, life sciences, manufacturing, commercial and institution, telecommunications, microelectronics, and healthcare sectors.
Government – support operations for different U.S. Government agencies such as Department of Energy, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Defense.
Global Services – a wide range of customized engineering research and services for existing facilities, such as process and methods betterment and performance improvement.
Power – business division focused on providing full Engineering, Procurement, Construction, and Management Services for power generating markets that include gas fired, solid fueled, renewable energy, and nuclear.
Major projects
Major contracts include the Trans-Alaska Pipeline SystemTrans-Alaska Pipeline System
The Trans Alaska Pipeline System , includes the Trans Alaska Pipeline, 11 pump stations, several hundred miles of feeder pipelines, and the Valdez Marine Terminal. TAPS is one of the world's largest pipeline systems...
completed in 1977, the $3.8bn Whiting
Whiting, Indiana
Whiting is a city located in the Chicago Metropolitan Area in Lake County, Indiana, which was founded in 1889. The city is located on the southern shore of Lake Michigan. It is roughly 16 miles from the Chicago Loop and just short of two miles from Chicago's South Side. Whiting is home to Whiting...
refinery modernization contract for BP
BP
BP p.l.c. is a global oil and gas company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the third-largest energy company and fourth-largest company in the world measured by revenues and one of the six oil and gas "supermajors"...
due to be completed in 2011 and the Eastern span replacement of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge due to be completed in 2013.
Fluor is also one of three companies awarded contracts under the LOGCAP
LOGCAP
The Logistics Civil Augmentation Program provides contingency support to augment the US Army force structure means to adequately support its forces using private military companies.-History:...
program (United States Army).