Dow’s new ethylene production facility in Freeport, Texas recognized
Fluor
Corporation (NYSE: FLR) announced today that Engineering
News-Record magazine has recognized DowDuPont Materials Science’s
new ethylene production facility in Freeport, Texas, with an Award of
Merit in the 2017 Global Best Project Awards. The project was honored in
the Power/Industrial category.
DowDuPont Materials Science is the business division of DowDuPont (NYSE:
DWDP), to be named Dow.
“Dow and Fluor had a world-class team that focused on execution
predictability and best practices, aligning all stakeholders at the
start of the project,” said Mark
Fields, president of Fluor’s Energy & Chemicals business in the
Americas. “The Fluor and Dow project team provided numerous solutions to
project challenges and delivered a safe, quality, on-schedule facility.
We are honored to have their achievements recognized as among the best
in the industry.”
“Dow and Fluor leveraged lessons learned from previous joint projects
and truly worked as one team to keep our first-mover advantage intact,”
said Ron Huijsmans, Dow’s U.S. Gulf Coast program director. “From
overcoming flooding at a Louisiana facility that was used to fabricate
pipe for the project to innovative use of tower cranes and the modular
concept for the pipe racks to improve safety and efficiency, this team
found solutions to challenges all along the way, enabling us to complete
the facility safely and on schedule.”
Fluor provided engineering,
procurement and construction services for the
1.5-million-ton-per-year light-hydrocarbon cracker, which can use both
ethane and propane as feedstock. Using a modular design approach to
optimize on-site craft resources, the team also challenged industry
norms to improve the design’s constructability in the field. The
3,000-plus craft workers achieved industry-leading quality and
productivity levels to complete mechanical construction safely and on
schedule in March 2017.
Industry veterans evaluated the Global Best Projects nominations on
safety performance, innovations, challenges and design and construction
quality, with a special emphasis on the diversity of global project
teams and their collaboration.
In addition to the project being featured in the October 16 issue of ENR,
the project team was recognized at an awards gala on Mon., October 23 in
New York City.
About Fluor Corporation
Fluor
Corporation (NYSE: FLR) is a global engineering, procurement,
fabrication, construction and maintenance company that designs, builds
and maintains capital-efficient facilities for its clients on six
continents. For more than a century, Fluor has served its clients by
delivering innovative and integrated solutions across the globe. With
headquarters in Irving, Texas, Fluor ranks 149 on the Fortune 500
list with revenue of $19 billion in 2016 and has more than 60,000
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