Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Irving-based Fluor opens Alaska office

By Pegasus News wire

IRVING — Fluor Corporation announced today the opening of its Alaska office in Anchorage to support projects in the region. An initial staff of 50 employees, backed by Fluor’s global workforce, will perform engineering, procurement, construction and maintenance services for the oil and gas, mining, and government sectors.

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Above: a Fluor employee gets settled in his new cubicle

The office will be located at 3800 Centerpoint Drive, Suite 200 in midtown Anchorage.

Many of Fluor's key clients in the oil and gas industry have expressed an interest in Fluor returning to Anchorage to support their increasing needs in the region. The Alaska office will offer operations that not only will support many of Fluor’s clients in Alaska, but also will serve strategic global interests at other arctic and sub-arctic project sites.

“Fluor has a long history of executing some of the most complex projects in the most challenging regions of the world,” said David Seaton, Fluor’s group president of Energy and Chemicals. “We will continue to serve the needs of our clients in the region, expand our resource base and work with the local community in Anchorage and throughout Alaska.”

The most well-known project executed by Fluor in Alaska was the engineering, procurement and construction of the pump stations, remote gate valve sites and marine terminal of the Trans Alaska Pipeline System, one of the largest pipeline systems in the world, which delivers oil 800 miles from Alaska’s North Slope to the Port of Valdez.

Fluor Corporation provides services on a global basis in the fields of engineering, procurement, construction, operations, maintenance and project management. Headquartered in Irving, Fluor is a FORTUNE 500 company with revenues of $16.7 billion in 2007.

Source: Fluor Corp.

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