In 2010, CB&I conducted a survey of worldwide oil & gas producers, primarily in the downstream sector. Our objective was to gauge owners' opinions on key issues in the engineering & construction industry, including capital expenditure trends and project execution challenges, among other topics. About 425 respondents from around the world completed the survey. The results are presented in the PDF file to the left. Click on the thumbnail to open or download the results.

Trade Shows and Conferences

CB&I will be participating in a number of upcoming industry trade shows and technical conferences.

Career Fair Events 2012

CB&I has served the metals and mining industry for decades, providing comprehensive engineering, procurement and construction services for customers that extract and process ferrous and non-ferrous metals,  We’ve built facilities for storing and processing gold, iron ore and steel, copper, bitumen, alumina and other materials.

Meeting industry challenges. The unique nature of these projects, together with the remote location of most raw material deposits, often present complex engineering and logistical challenges. Our broad expertise in engineering design, continued innovation in steel welding techniques and ability to mobilize resources anywhere have enabled us to deliver numerous successful mining projects.

By providing single-point responsibility, we eliminate the waste, duplication of effort and delays that can occur when multiple contractors perform the work. In addition, CB&I can self-perform nearly all aspects of a project, from concept through startup. We operate a vast global network of engineering, procurement, fabrication and construction facilities that allow us to quickly mobilize people, material and equipment wherever they are needed.

Our technologies and services for the metal and mining sector include extraction plants, flat bottom tanks for bulk liquid storage, industrial process vessels, precipitators, process units and piping, blast furnaces, alumina and caustic storage, and other specialty structures.

	CB&I. CB&U? Consider our comprehensive CB&I Training Program (CTP), a rotational assignment program that gives recent engineering graduates broad exposure to both CB&I’s operations and its technical experts.  A typical CTP experience consists of four, six-month rotations in a variety of job environments including, in some cases, international locations. By matching a trainee’s skills and interests with a long-term career path,  CB&I is committed to delivering a network of support, educational and professional development, and leadership opportunities to help you reach your full potential and advance your career. CB&I is currently recruiting college graduates with degrees in civil, mechanical, chemical and electrical engineering.   Job Search Submit your CV/Résumé
	CB&I + You The CB&I Training Program is a unique opportunity to test drive a variety of positions so you can determine the areas you would like to specialize in based on hands-on experience.  You may want to pursue a design engineering role, take a field assignment, move into project management, or join our business development team.  CB&I promotes continuing education and encourages advanced internal and external learning opportunities.

Career Fair Events 2012

	Building the CB&I World CB&I has a stellar reputation for quality craftsmanship built weld-by-weld and project-by-project over our proud 120-year history.  Having constructed more than 50,000 steel plate structures and EPC projects in more than 100 countries on all 7 continents, CB&I has the most extensive global experience and one of the best reputations in the industry.  We offer good pay for good jobs with lots of training and development opportunities. The success of our projects can be attributed to numerous factors, but the key driver of our exceptional performance is our talented, loyal and experienced workforce. Join us and be part of our expert global taskforce of engineers, project managers, crafts people and construction personnel. With hard work, dedication and excellence you will be rewarded and challenged to be your best. You will have the opportunity for continuing training, education and development so that you, and CB&I, remain on the cutting edge of the industry.

Since 1934, Lummus Technology's Heat Transfer group has been providing process industries worldwide with the design and supply of specialized heat transfer equipment.

Fired Heaters

We have designed and built fired heaters of every size and type, often as the forerunner in the field of new design applications, technology and pollution control. Our experience list includes:

• SRT (Short Residence Time) pyrolysis heaters for the ethylene industry. SRT heaters are used to produce more than 40% of the world's annual ethylene capacity.
• Steam reformers for applications in ammonia, methanol, hydrogen and town gas plants, and for the reduction of iron ore.
• More than 60 heaters for visbreaking projects.
• Fifty percent of the world's existing cokers.
• Several hundred crude and vacuum heaters.
• Charge and recycle heaters for hydrocracking processes, some with pressures as high as 325 bar (4600 psi) and temperatures up to 550 degrees C (1020 degrees F).
• More than 100 catalytic reformers.
• Special purpose heaters for refining processes such as alkylation, solvent refining and sulfur recovery, and for petrochemical processes such as styrene and vinyls production.

Air Preheaters

We offer cast iron preheaters, tubular systems, regenerative systems and preheaters used on gas turbine units to preheat air against exhaust gas.

Heat Exchangers

We have designed and supplied more than 20,000 shell-and-tube heat exchangers over the past 60 years, including high pressure applications. Ongoing research and development, along with our ISO 9001 Lloyds-certified quality system, ensure that our advanced equipment meets our clients' requirements.

One innovation is the HELIXCHANGER® helically baffled heat exchanger, is currently applied in more than 1,800 applications. Quadrant-shaped segment baffle plates are positioned at an angle to the tube axis in a sequential arrangement to guide the shellside flow into a helical pattern. The result is reduced capital cost and life cycle cost, improved thermal effectiveness, enhanced heat transfer, reduced pressure drop, lower fouling and significantly reduced vibration hazards.

HELIXCHANGER® heat exchanger

CB&I Steel Plate Structures designs, fabricates and constructs storage tanks and containments vessels and their associated systems for the oil & gas, water & wastewater, mining and nuclear industries.

CB&I Lummus builds upstream and downstream oil & gas projects, LNG production and regasification terminals, and wide range of other energy related projects.

Lummus Technology capitalizes on more than 1,500 patents and patent applications to provide process technologies, catalysts and specialty equipment for petrochemical facilities, oil refineries and gas processing plants.

CB&I has been a leading provider of engineering, procurement and construction services to the power industry for more than 75 years. Our expertise encompasses both traditional and emerging technologies, including fossil fuel electric generation, nuclear, hydroelectric and wind power.

Our technologies and services for power industry customers include:

• Nuclear plant containment vessels, repairs and modifications
• Absorber vessels, stacks and chimney liners for fossil fuel plants
• Penstocks, scroll cases and bifurcations for hydroelectric plants
• Wind turbines
• Strata-Therm® thermal energy storage for large-scale cooling systems

We are one of the few companies that can self-perform all aspects of the work from concept through commissioning. Thus, we focus on results, not billable hours. This integrated approach is possible because we have people around the world who are specialists in design, testing, fabrication, welding, construction and project management.

By doing the work ourselves, we minimize costs, shorten project schedules and reduce risk for the customer. And we use exacting quality control procedures through every phase of the project, allowing us to deliver superior results. Our power industry customers don’t have to worry about the duplication of effort, incompatible designs and waste that can occur when multiple contractors are involved.
 

CB&I  At a Glance - printable PDF version

Corporate Office	Oostduinlaan 75 2596JJ The Hague, Netherlands
Worldwide Administrative Office	One CB&I Plaza 2103 Research Forest Drive The Woodlands, Texas 77380-2624, USA
President & CEO	Philip K. Asherman
Corporate Description	CB&I designs, engineers and constructs some of the world’s largest energy infrastructure projects, providing a full spectrum of EPC solutions and proven process technologies. Drawing upon more than a century of experience and the expertise of approximately 18,000 employees worldwide, CB&I safely and reliably executes more than 700 projects a year through its three business sectors: Lummus Technology capitalizes on more than 1,500 patents and patent applications to provide process technologies, catalysts and specialty equipment for petrochemical facilities, oil refineries, and gas processing plants; CB&I's Project Engineering and Construction sector builds upstream and downstream oil & gas projects, LNG liquefaction and regasification terminals, and a wide range of other energy related projects; CB&I's Steel Plate Structures sector designs, fabricates and constructs storage tanks and containment vessels and their associated systems for the oil & gas, water & wastewater, mining and nuclear industries.
NYSE Symbol	CBI
Founded	1889
Number of Employees	Approximately 18,000
2010 Financial Highlights	Revenue: $3.6 billion Backlog: $6.9 billion New Awards: $3.4 billion Shareholders’ Equity: $1.08 billion
Markets we serve	Oil and Gas Chemical and Petrochemical Power Generation Water and Wastewater Metals and Mining
Global Execution Capabilities

Business Sectors
	Project Engineering and Construction CB&I engineers and constructs some of the world’s largest energy projects, including LNG regasification and liquefaction terminals, expansive refinery projects and major petrochemical complexes. Our technical expertise extends across the entire hydrocarbon chain, enabling us to add value through every phase of the project with seamless efficiency. With engineering, fabrication and execution centers strategically located throughout the world, CB&I is well positioned and uniquely qualified to serve the technical needs of our clients.
	Steel Plate Structures CB&I, the world’s largest tank construction company, has a stellar reputation for quality craftsmanship and technological innovation. CB&I’s scope of work includes engineering, fabricating and constructing storage and containment vessels for the petroleum, water and nuclear industries. We have the most extensive global experience in the industry, having built in excess of 46,000 tanks in more than 100 countries on all seven continents.
	Lummus Technology CB&I’s process technology sector is a preeminent provider of proprietary technologies that are critical in processing natural gas, manufacturing petrochemicals, and converting crude oil into consumer products, such as gasoline and diesel. Lummus Technology has more than 70 proprietary licensed technologies and 1,500 patents and patent applications, and an unparalleled network of alliances, including a highly successful joint venture with Chevron Lummus Global.
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Investor Relations Contact: Christi Thoms +1-832-513-1200

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A reference guide to hydrocarbon-related terms, acronyms and abbreviations; CB&I trademarks and licensed processes; and storage-related terminology.

CB&I World is a full-color magazine showcasing the projects, people and technology that make CB&I one of the world's leading engineering, procurement and construction companies. Each issue includes a review of current projects around the world, a spotlight report on a key technology or market segment, and a focus section on safety, a CB&I core value. Printed copies are available by request.

CB&I provides links to a number of publications and resources:

• Publications including:
  • Annual Reports – Electronic versions of CB&I Annual Reports from 1997 to the present.
  • CB&I World – CB&I’s customer magazine, highlighting projects around the world, as well as new technologies and innovative solutions.
  • Technical Articles & Conference Papers – A library of articles and papers authored by CB&I subject matter experts that have been published in industry trade journals and presented to technical associations.
• Biographies – Bios and photos of CB&I’s senior executive team.
• Logos – Downloadable logos for CB&I and Lummus Technology in both color and black & white versions.
• Glossary – A reference guide to hydrocarbon-related terms, acronyms and abbreviations; CB&I trademarks and licensed processes; and storage-related terminology.

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CB&I has provided superior value and reliability to the water and wastewater industry for more than a century. We built our first elevated water storage tank in 1894, pioneered the transition to welded steel tanks in the 1930s, and developed the original Watersphere®, Waterspheroid® and Hydropillar® storage tanks.

We provide turnkey design-build services for water and wastewater projects, handling everything from concept through start-up. This approach is possible because our people have extensive hands-on expertise in all aspects of project development, from process selection and design, engineering, fabrication and procurement to foundations work, construction and painting.

Water storage. Our record in the design and construction of water storage is unmatched. Over the past century, CB&I has built more than 25,000 elevated water tanks, pioneered better tank designs and storage technologies, and developed a unique trailing scaffold system that makes construction safer and more efficient while improving inspection access. Our Waterspheroid® and Hydropillar® elevated tanks are the most popular styles in use today, and we also supply cost-effective Composite Elevated Tanks that combine a reinforced concrete support pedestal with a steel tank. In addition, we design and build reservoirs and standpipes – ground-level tanks that can be built to virtually any capacity and dimension.

Specifications, Drawings and Brochures for CB&I Elevated Water Storage Tanks:

Waterspheroid® Elevated Tank Specification
Waterspheroid® Elevated Tank Drawings   
Waterspheroid® Elevated Tank Brochure

Composite Elevated Tank Specifications
Composite Elevated Tank Drawings
Composite Elevated Tank Brochure

Hydropillar™ Elevated Tank Specification
Hydropillar™ Elevated Tank Drawings
Hydropillar™ Elevated Tank Brochure

Reservoir & Standpipe Specification
Reservoir & Standpipe Brochure

Protective Coatings for Welded Steel Reservoirs

Water & wastewater treatment. CB&I offers special structures for water and wastewater treatment. We began offering ESD™ Egg-Shaped Digester systems in 1989, and we’ve made a number of advancements over the years. The Egg-Shaped Digester is one of the most efficient and cost-effective anaerobic systems for sludge treatment. In addition, CB&I is the original provider of the ClariCone® solids contact clarifier for potable water and wastewater treatment. CB&I's experience and know-how is unparalleled with well over 300 ClariCone installations on a variety of applications, treating in excess of 700 million gallons per day.

CB&I has served the liquefied natural gas industry for more than 50 years. We’ve designed and built nearly every type of LNG project, operating on a global basis. We offer a comprehensive range of technology and engineering, procurement, fabrication and construction services for the LNG industry, with a focus on:

• Natural gas liquefaction plants
• LNG regasification terminals
• LNG peak shaving facilities
• LNG storage tanks

Within these focus areas, CB&I can provide a full range of services including conceptual design, detail engineering, material procurement, fabrication, construction, project management, compliance support, commissioning and start-up, and operator training.

Innovations for a specialized market. CB&I is one of the most experienced engineering and construction firms serving the LNG market. We built the first LNG regasification import terminal in the United States and over the years we have developed a number of processes and technologies that benefit our customers. These including new methods for liquefaction, tank insulation, BTU reduction, inlet air cooling and other proprietary processes.

In addition, CB&I has extensive experience with the key processes and equipment that are utilized in baseload liquefaction plants, including receiving and gas metering, acid gas removal, dehydration, mercury removal, refrigeration, LNG storage and loading, and offsites and utilities. We had complete design-build responsibility for the PERU LNG export facility, the first baseload liquefaction plant in South America, which was completed in 2010.

CB&I has served the oil & gas industry since the early 20th century, when we began building storage tanks for the young but flourishing oil business. Today, we offer a comprehensive range of technology and EPC services for the upstream oil & gas sector, with a focus on:

• Offshore oil & gas production systems, including platform topsides and floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels
• Onshore oil & gas field production
• Onshore pipelines
• Natural gas processing
• LNG liquefaction plants and regasification terminals
• Bulk liquid storage structures for both atmospheric and low temperature/cryogenic storage

Within these focus areas, CB&I can provide any combination of front-end design, engineering, procurement, fabrication, construction, project management and commissioning services across all phases of the project life cycle. In addition, we provide licensed process technology and proprietary know-how for gas processing and LNG regasification.

Unique capabilities. CB&I’s self-perform, direct hire construction capabilities set us apart from most other global contractors. Our philosophy of direct hiring and training local field personnel to execute our projects has proven to be a successful model – for us and for our clients. We bring global knowledge and experience to all our projects, and for each location we have an understanding of local contracting, legislation, logistics, and purchasing.

In addition, CB&I has been a pioneer in modular fabrication and construction. Modular construction offers a number of advantages over conventional "stick built" construction. The bulk of the fabrication and assembly are performed at our facilities, which allows us to ensure all work is performed according to our high standards, under controlled working conditions. By reducing fieldwork, we also minimize the project's impact on the customer site. Modular construction also minimizes lay-down space, an important benefit when the field site is small or congested, and reduces delays due to adverse weather. In addition, modular construction can shorten schedules by allowing for concurrent processes, such as fabrication, permitting and logistical arrangements.

Some of the best known names in the industry rely on CB&I to design and build their downstream oil and gas processing facilities, and on Lummus Technology and its partners to provide cost-effective licensed technologies and catalysts. We offer a comprehensive range of technology and engineering, procurement, fabrication and construction services for the downstream oil & gas industry, with a focus on:

• Refinery process units
• Petrochemical facilities
• Gasification plants
• Hydrogen generating plants
• Sulfur processing plants
• Bulk liquid storage structures for both atmospheric and low temperature/cryogenic storage
• Licensed technologies and related catalysts for refining, petrochemical and gas processing
• Heat transfer equipment

Within these focus areas, CB&I can provide any combination of front-end design, engineering, procurement, fabrication, construction, project management and commissioning services across all phases of the project life cycle.

Now that Lummus Technology has joined CB&I, we have considerable expertise in many state-of-the-art refining and petrochemical technologies including gasoline blending components, bottom-of-the-barrel processing, olefins, polypropylene, styrene/polystyrene, light hydrocarbons (C₃-C₅), phenolics, and other specialty chemicals. CB&I has the unique ability to offer our clients a full-scope product utilizing both in-house technologies and proven EPFC services.

Flexible commercial model. From a commercial standpoint, CB&I offers a balanced and flexible contractual approach to each project, based on the needs and preferences of the client and with the objective of balancing risk between contractor and client. While we continue to execute projects on a lump-sum basis where it makes sense, we are contracting for more and more projects on a "hybrid" basis, where a defined scope of work may be performed lump-sum and the balance on a cost reimbursable basis, which allows for risk sharing between the two parties. We also work on a purely cost reimbursable basis as appropriate.

CB&I designs, engineers and constructs some of the world’s largest energy infrastructure projects, providing a full spectrum of EPC solutions and proven process technologies. We focus on serving customers in the upstream oil & gas, downstream oil & gas, LNG, power, water & wastewater, and metals & mining markets. Drawing upon more than a century of experience and the expertise of approximately 18,000 employees worldwide, CB&I safely and reliably executes more than 700 projects a year.

CB&I designs, engineers and constructs some of the world’s largest energy infrastructure projects, combining technology with a full spectrum of engineering, procurement, steel plate fabrication, field construction, and modular fabrication and construction services. Drawing upon more than a century of experience and the expertise of approximately 18,000 employees worldwide, CB&I safely and reliably executes more than 700 projects a year.

Licensed Technologies	EPC of Energy Process Facilities	Storage Tanks/Vessels

Founded in 1889 in Chicago, Illinois, USA, as Chicago Bridge & Iron Company, today's CB&I combines proven process technology with global capabilities in engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) to deliver comprehensive solutions to customers in the energy and natural resource industries.

Early Years

While initially involved in bridge design and construction, we turned our focus to bulk liquid storage in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, coinciding with the western expansion of railroads across the United States and the discovery of oil in the U.S. Southwest. CB&I quickly became known for our excellent design engineering and field construction of elevated water storage tanks, aboveground tanks for storage of petroleum and refined products, refinery process vessels and other steel plate structures.

We supported the expansion of oil exploration outside the U.S., starting operations in South America in 1924, in Asia two years later, and in the Middle East in 1939. Our ability to execute projects anywhere in the world, using our own integrated resources, became (and remains) a CB&I hallmark.

Innovations and Milestones

During the course of our history, we have developed many innovative technologies and achieved a number of industry milestones, including the first floating-roof tank for the oil industry (1923), the first spherical pressure vessel (1923), the first double-wall LNG storage tank (1958), the first site-assembled thick wall steel nuclear reactor vessel (1966), the first marine LNG storage and distribution terminal in the U.S. (1971), the world's largest steel water reservoir (1986) and the world's largest vacuum distillation tower (1999), to name just a few.

Today's CB&I

In late 2000, CB&I embarked on a series of acquisitions that have dramatically expanded our services to encompass the entire hydrocarbon value chain, from wellhead through processing and distribution. With our most recent acquisition of Lummus Global in late 2007, CB&I and Lummus together can now offer customers a total solutions package that comprises technology licensing and related catalysts; front end engineering and design (FEED); EPC services; commissioning; and aftermarket support.

While the scope of our technology and our ability to deliver large EPC projects have grown, traditional CB&I business practices that our customers have come to expect have not changed. We still specialize in lump-sum, turnkey project execution. We still do almost everything it takes to deliver a project with our own direct-hire employees. And our long-standing commitment to safety, quality, integrity and value has not changed.

Highlights from CB&I's history, organized by decades, are presented below.

Ensuring the health and safety of our employees, our customers and the public – and protecting the environment – are core values of CB&I. We uphold these values in the same way that we ensure the quality of our work – by implementing rigorous controls through every phase of our projects.

Training and focus on leading indicators are the keys to preventing accidents and incidents. Our employees receive extensive training on how to perform their jobs safely, properly and in compliance with environmental regulations.

Our HSE processes and employee training have enabled CB&I to achieve one of the best safety performance benchmarks in the industry. We've executed thousands of projects without a single lost workday or recordable incident. Our projects have garnered numerous safety awards from customers, industry associations and safety organizations.

Safety benefits the customer.

We make safety a core value because it is the right thing to do. But we also know that our health, safety and environmental program benefits our customers. It:

• Reduces costs – Our commitment reduces our customers' labor costs and the expenses of supervising and auditing their contractor's safety practices.
• Lessens risk – Safer work practices lessen the probability of an incident occurring at the customer's facility and the potential for liability.
• Minimizes impacts – Our global Crisis Management Team can respond quickly in the event of a natural disaster, operational upset or unlikely construction event. Their knowledge and preparedness is key to minimizing the impact of an incident.
• Improves compliance – Our rigorous safety process helps customers comply with OSHA's Process Safety Management standards and other compliance standards.
• Ensures peace of mind – Our customers can be confident that they have a capable, safety-focused contractor with well-trained and committed personnel on the job.

Safety is the responsibility of every employee at CB&I, and zero incidents is our foremost goal. Around the world, our trained personnel work to ensure the safety of themselves, their coworkers, the customer and the public.

Environmental protection is part of our corporate citizenship.

Protecting the environment is one of CB&I's core values. This commitment is demonstrated through our environmental management program, innovative solutions for reducing air emissions and our technologies for producing cleaner fuels.

We believe environmental responsibility goes beyond regulatory compliance; it is an integral part of our corporate citizenship. Our ability to deliver projects worldwide has been a keystone of our success, and we are an important constituent of the many communities where we work. Our goal is to design and deliver projects that benefit these communities while protecting their natural resources.

Solutions for cleaner air and power.

We've participated in thousands of projects aimed at meeting the world's growing energy demand while minimizing harm to the environment. We've built refinery components that reduce air emissions; power plants that use cleaner-burning, more efficient sources of fuel; storage tanks that incorporate patented emissions-control features; and platforms for harvesting wind energy. We've developed systems that provide clean drinking water for communities and effectively treat wastewater for safe disposal. Every day, we are working on new technologies and solutions that can help our customers prevent or reduce pollution.

Environmental initiatives.

Around the world, our construction, manufacturing and warehouse supervisors receive environmental awareness education and training. Every one of our facilities is periodically audited by a third party expert for environmental compliance. In addition, we have an extensive number of corporate standards that address jobsite environmental plans, hazardous waste management and disposal, emergency response planning, and other environmental matters.
 

CB&I focuses its corporate responsibility efforts in three main areas:

• conducting our global business to the highest ethical standards;
• being a good neighbor around the world where our employees live and work through responsible environmental practices and community involvement; and
• providing a safe, healthy and enabling work environment that embraces diversity and offers career development opportunities.

Ethical Business Practices.

CB&I is strongly committed to conducting its worldwide business activities in accordance with high ethical standards that are derived from such fundamental values as honesty, integrity, reliability, fairness, mutual respect and trust. We believe this is the right way to operate our businesses. The Board of Directors of CB&I has adopted a Code of Ethics and Corporate Governance Guidelines that ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations and encourage the highest standards of integrity in the conduct of our business.

• Code of Ethics
• Corporate Governance Guidelines

Good Neighbor Practices.

Protecting the environment is one of CB&I's core values. This commitment is demonstrated through our environmental management program, innovative solutions for reducing air emissions and our technologies for producing cleaner fuels. Being a good neighbor also means supporting the communities where our employees live and work through community involvement, work force development initiatives, and using local suppliers when possible.

Solutions for cleaner air and power. We've participated in thousands of projects aimed at meeting the world's growing energy demand while minimizing harm to the environment. We've built refinery components that reduce air emissions; power plants that use cleaner-burning, more efficient sources of fuel; storage tanks that incorporate patented emissions-control features; LNG facilities that provide greater access to clean-burning natural gas; and platforms for harvesting wind energy. We've developed systems that provide clean drinking water for communities and effectively treat wastewater for safe disposal. Every day, we are working on new technologies and solutions that can help our customers prevent or reduce pollution.

Environmental initiatives. Around the world, our construction, manufacturing and warehouse supervisors receive environmental awareness education and training. Every one of our facilities is periodically audited by a third party expert for environmental compliance. In addition, we have an extensive number of corporate standards that address jobsite environmental plans, hazardous waste management and disposal, emergency response planning, and other environmental matters.

Community involvement. CB&I employees volunteer their time in health, educational and environmental organizations in communities across the globe, and we support social, economic and cultural development initiatives in conjunction with many of our major projects. A prime example is in Peru, where CB&I is building South America’s first baseload LNG liquefaction plant. (See sidebar.) The Peru project is just one example of our long-standing practice of hiring and training local workers at our jobsites worldwide, often providing marketable skills and significantly higher wage-earning potential to these individuals. We also do business with local suppliers whenever possible.

Responsible Workplace Practices.

CB&I is committed to treating every employee with respect and dignity and providing a safe, hospitable and quality work environment. We recognize that a motivated, well-trained, diverse workforce is a significant competitive advantage.

Health and safety. Safety is a core value at CB&I. It is the responsibility of every employee, and zero incidents is our foremost goal. We implement rigorous controls through every phase of our projects, and our employees receive extensive training on how to perform their jobs safely, properly and in compliance with environmental regulations. Our HSE processes and employee training have enabled CB&I to achieve one of the best safety performance benchmarks in the industry.

Respecting diversity. In the course of our 120-year history, CB&I has assembled a talented workforce from locations around the world, intermingling employees from all cultures and traditions to best leverage their talent and expose them to career development opportunities. On many of our larger jobs, the project team often comprises individuals from 25 or more different nationalities, working together toward a common goal. Many employees who first joined CB&I in their home country subsequently move with us from project to project around the world.

Enabling and hospitable workplace. CB&I is firmly committed to a workplace free from discrimination, hostility or harassment. The company has a policy of promoting equal opportunity in employment without discrimination based upon race, color, religion, sex, gender, age, national origin, disability or any other status protected under applicable law. Discrimination or harassment based upon any of these characteristics is prohibited and will not be tolerated.

Employee  development. CB&I is committed to providing our employees with a working environment that is conducive to development and career growth. We provide employees with numerous opportunities to improve their skills, further their education and advance within the company.

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Lummus Technology is a leading player in licensing proprietary process technologies to the hydrocarbon industry. Lummus is renowned for the scope of its technology assets and its ability to provide single-source solutions for customers globally. It licenses over 70 processes that are supported by more than 2,000 current and pending patents, with key strengths in olefins; petrochemical intermediates and polymers; refining – including hydroprocessing, residuum upgrading, fluid catalytic cracking and lubes; and natural gas processing.

In addition, Lummus Technology’s heat transfer group is a world leader in the design and supply of specialized heat transfer equipment to process industries worldwide. Since the 1930s Lummus has supplied fired heaters of every size and type, including more than 1,000 SRT® (Short Residence Time) ethylene cracking heaters, which are used to produce about 40% of the world’s annual ethylene capacity.

Customer Focus

The Lummus Technology team is dedicated to providing services to each licensee over the life cycle of a project, with emphasis on:

• Developing and maintaining new and existing technology
• Providing accurate basic engineering packages
• Supplying state-of-the-art catalysts
• Ensuring flawless start-ups
• Providing technical support to ensure safe, reliable and efficient plant performance
• Assisting with future plant expansions

We conduct ongoing research and development to support and improve our existing technologies and to develop and commercialize new technologies. We have active R&D programs that target the development of process technologies focused on upgrading bio-derived components into compatible fuels. We operate three R&D centers in the United States and one in Germany focusing on process chemistry and catalysis.

Lummus Technology offers extensive aftermarket services to our worldwide client base, including technical support services, training and licensee conferences.
 

Olefins/Polyolefins Technologies

Lummus Technology licenses the most widely used ethylene technology in the world, with about 40% of global capacity based on our process. A significant by-product of the ethylene process when cracking liquid feeds is propylene. Olefins Conversion Technology optimizes the balance among ethylene, propylene and butylenes depending on current market demand and pricing. We also offer the Novolen® gas phase polypropylene process for the production of a full range of polypropylene products.

Petrochemical Technologies

Lummus Technology offers a diverse line of chemical technologies along product lines such as styrenics and polystyrene, phenolics, light hydrocarbons (C₃ -C₅  dehydrogenation, butadiene extraction), and other assorted specialty chemicals including dimethyl carbonate, diphenyl carbonate, and maleic anhydride.

Refining Technologies

Our portfolio of refining technologies provides solutions for bottoms upgrading, hydroprocessing, reformulated fuels and high octane blending components, in addition to catalytic distillation processes that combine reaction and fractionation in a single unit operation. These processes are applied in selective hydrogenation, hydrodesulfurization, alkylation and etherification. Current offerings from Chevron Lummus Global, our joint venture with Chevron, include hydrocracking, residual hydrotreating, residual hydrocracking and lubricants.

Gas Processing Technologies

Patented process technology and proprietary know-how developed by Lummus Technology are used in more than 200 natural gas plants around the world. Many of the innovations we have developed, like the use of plate-fin exchangers and packings in cryogenic columns, remain today as standard designs in the industry. We have a wide portfolio of patented designs including deep ethane and propane recovery, NicheLNG^SM, mitigation of CO₂ recovery in NGL processing, and hydrocarbons from refinery streams, enabling us to expand our technology positions through the natural gas value chain.

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CB&I's Steel Plate Structures business sector consolidates CB&I’s legacy flat bottom tank, pressure sphere, nuclear containment, and low temperature/cryogenic storage businesses. With a heritage dating back to the company’s first steel plate storage vessel in 1889, CB&I has the most extensive global experience of any tank construction company in the industry, having built in excess of 45,000 storage tanks in more than 100 countries on all seven continents.

CB&I enjoys a stellar reputation for quality craftsmanship and technological innovation. We offer turnkey solutions that encompass conceptual design, engineering, fabrication, procurement, construction and commissioning of storage and containment vessels for the oil & gas, water, and nuclear industries, as well as specialized structures for water and wastewater treatment, mineral processing, and hydroelectric facilities.

Heritage of Technical Innovation

CB&I has a proven track record of developing innovative solutions for storing products at ambient and refrigerated temperatures. Here are just a few of our milestones:

• Built the world’s first floating-roof tank in 1923
• Built the world’s first spherical pressure vessel (Hortonsphere®) in 1923
• Pioneered the transition from riveted to welded tanks in the early 1930s
• Built the first liquefied gas storage tanks using 9% nickel steel, which is now the industry standard for low-temperature and cryogenic storage
• Introduced the Waterspheroid® elevated water storage tank in 1954
• Developed the Hydropillar® elevated water storage tank in 1962
• Designed and built the first LNG peak shaving plant in 1965
• Designed and built the first LNG regasification import terminal in the United States in 1971
• Designed and built the world’s first concrete containment LNG tank in 1986
• Constructed more than 75% of the containment vessels in operating nuclear power plants in the United States
   

CB&I's Project Engineering and Construction business sector provides engineering, procurement, fabrication and construction of upstream and downstream process facilities for the oil & gas industry.

Upstream
 

• Offshore systems, including platform topsides and FPSOs
• Onshore oil & gas production
• Onshore pipelines
• Gas processing
• LNG liquefaction plants and regasification terminals

Downstream
 

• Refinery process units
• Petrochemical facilities
• Gasification plants
• Hydrogen and synthesis gas plants
• Sulfur processing plants

With access to Lummus Technology and its portfolio of more than 70 licensed processes, CB&I can leverage proven process technology with decades of experience in the design and construction of large-scale oil and gas processing facilities. CB&I helps customers manage the risk associated with complex projects by offering a range of contracting options, including fixed-price, cost reimbursable and hybrid approaches.

Extensive Self-Perform Capabilities

CB&I's Project Engineering and Construction business sector is one of the few contractors in the world that can self-perform the entire scope of a project, from start to finish, with its own in-house resources. Its comprehensive package of services includes:

• Concept definition and FEED studies
• Design and detail engineering
• Procurement of all materials and equipment
• Fabrication, including modularization of process units
• Site development; stick-built and modular construction
• Commissioning, start-up and operator training

By performing every phase of a project with its own forces whenever possible, the integrated CB&I business model translates into shorter project schedules, lower costs, improved quality control, and reduced risk for the customer.

 

CB&I (NYSE: CBI) is one of the world’s leading engineering, procurement and construction companies and a major process technology licensor. We provide a comprehensive range of solutions to customers in the energy and natural resource industries.

Drawing upon the expertise of approximately 18,000 employees worldwide, CB&I offers a full scope of services, from conceptual design and technology licensing, through engineering, procurement, fabrication and construction, to final commissioning and beyond – with a portfolio of aftermarket services.

With engineering offices and projects located around the world, CB&I has the global experience and local expertise to safely deliver superior results even in the most challenging environments.

Our comprehensive portfolio of projects across the industries we serve and our concept-to-completion range of capabilities position us to meet the needs of our clients year after year.