KBR Stock Discussion

KBR, Inc. Description

KBR, Inc. operates as an engineering, construction, and services company worldwide. The company's Hydrocarbons segment designs and constructs liquefied natural gas and gas-to-liquids facilities; and delivers onshore and offshore oil and natural gas production facilities, including platforms, floating production and subsea facilities, and pipelines. This segment also offers specialty consulting services, which include field development studies and planning, structural integrity management, and proprietary designs for ship and semi-submersible hulls; and executes projects and complexes, and licenses process technologies for the coal monetization, petrochemical, refining, chemicals, biofuels, and syngas markets. Its Infrastructure, Government, and Power segment offers base operations, facilities management, border security, engineering, procurement, construction (EPC) services, and logistics support to industrial commercial, defense, and governmental agencies; and project management, construction management, design, and support services for aviation, road, rail, maritime, water, waste water, building, and pipeline projects. It also offers a range of front-end engineering and design (FEED), pre-FEED, and EPC services to the heavy industrial and manufacturing clients; EPC management services; and EPC services for fossil fuel and renewable power generation, plant re-powering, and emissions control projects. The company's Services segment provides construction, construction management, fabrication, operations/maintenance, commissioning/startup, and turnaround services for the oil and gas, petrochemicals processing, mining, power, alternate energy, pulp and paper, industrial and manufacturing, and consumer product industries. Its Other segment includes the ventures business that invests in defense equipment and housing, toll roads, and petrochemicals projects. The company was founded in 1901 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Sector: Industrials
Industry: Engineering & Construction
Keywords: Natural Gas Mining Chemical Oil And Gas Project Management Liquefied Natural Gas Biofuel Fossil Fuel Construction Management Offshore Oil Subsea Facilities Management Natural Gas Production Hydrocarbons Process Technologies Renewable Power Syngas Turnaround Services