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The Fluor Corporation has announced that it has completed a US$1.5 billion engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) project for RasGas in Ras Laffan City, Qatar.
“Over the past three-plus years, our project team has consistently demonstrated engineering and construction excellence on this milestone-driven megaproject for RasGas,” Jim Heavner, senior vice president, Fluor’s Energy & Chemicals Group said.
“Our project team successfully trained more than 62,000 different workers at the site coming from 40 different countries with peak construction manpower reaching nearly 9,000 workers in January 2008,” Heavner added.
The RL3 Common Offplot Projects, a number of different EPCM projects undertaken by the Texas-based contractor included power distribution, pipelines, storage tanks utilities and related equipment. Work on the contract started in November 2005.
