What is Fluor’s role in the oil and gas industry?
Fluor provides full-service engineering, procurement, fabrication, construction and project management services to clients in the upstream, downstream, chemicals and offshore markets in the Middle East. Fluor also acquired Stork, a maintenance, modification and asset integrity service provider headquartered in The Netherlands, to expand our life cycle capabilities.
What are your major EPC projects in the region?
Fluor Corporation is currently undertaking a wide range of projects across the region including front end engineering design (FEED), engineering, procurement, fabrication, construction as well as operations and maintenance services for clients in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq and the UAE.
We are developing several centres of excellence for projects in the GCC. In the past five years, we have used local execution teams to source nearly $1.6bn-worth of material and equipment from vendors across the Middle East. Providing these types of opportunities to local teams and vendors goes a long way toward building effective local supply chains.
What has been your largest project award in recent years?
One of the largest projects was the award in 2015 from the Kuwait National Petroleum Company of two EPC packages for key process support units, utilities and infrastructure for its new Al-Zour Refinery. Fluor, in JV with its partners, is executing the project which has a contract value to Fluor of $2.6 billion. When completed, the new complex is expected to be one of the largest refineries in the world.
What is the largest project currently under construction?
Awarded in 2014, Kuwait National Petroleum Company’s Clean Fuels Project is the largest Fluor project currently under construction in the GCC. Construction is well under way with 12,000 craft workers expected to be employed at peak.
For this lump-sum, turnkey project, Fluor is providing EPC services as well as associated commissioning, start-up and testing support for the Mina Abdulllah Package 2 (MAB2) which will increase capacities and provide low-sulphur fuel.
What are you showcasing at this year’s ADIPEC?
Stork, a Fluor company, improves asset performance, safety and cost efficiency throughout an asset’s life cycle. Stork offers a wide range of asset solutions and specialist services across all areas of maintenance, modification and asset integrity. A global company, Stork has 19,000 employees based in more than 100 countries.
Stork is showcasing its specialist services for the oil and gas sector along with our power services capabilities for rotating and process equipment, as well as shutdown and turnaround capabilities. Stork is also pleased to be introducing two new services at ADIPEC – Multi Disciplined Rope Access and Condition Monitoring services.
Fluor experts will be available to discuss how our integrated solutions approach provides opportunities to reduce costs at every phase of a project. They can provide examples of how Fluor is leveraging innovation to improve project delivery providing cost and schedule certainty.
