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CB&I Today

In late 2000, CB&I embarked on a series of acquisitions that have expanded its services to encompass the entire hydrocarbon industry, from conceptual design through technology licensing, engineering and construction, to final commissioning and technical services. CB&I completed its largest single acquisition to date with the purchase of Lummus Global from ABB on November 19, 2007, adding approximately 3,000 employees to the CB&I payroll.

On July 30, 2012, CB&I announced the planned acquisition of The Shaw Group for a purchase price of US$3.04 billion. If the acquisition is accepted by shareholders and approved by regulators, the combined entity CB&I Shaw will employ nearly 50,000 people.

CB&I's global business sectors are:

Project Engineering and Construction, which performs the global engineering, procurement, modularization and construction work for upstream and downstream oil and gas projects, including complete LNG liquefaction trains and regasification terminals.

Steel Plate Structures, which consolidates CB&I's legacy flat bottom tank, nuclear containment vessel, cryogenic storage and water tower businesses.

Lummus Technology, which provides process technology licensing for refineries, chemical plants and gas processing plants, in addition to providing catalysts and technical services.Lummus Technology licenses many refinery technologies, especially complex processing units, petrochemicals technology units and gas processing.

Examples of recent major projects around the world include:

• Two liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminals in the U.K. (South Hook LNG in Milford Haven, Wales which will be the largest LNG terminal in Europe; and the Grain LNG import terminal near London)
• LNG liquefaction plant in Pampa Melchorita, Peru
• Natural gas processing and treating complex in Cabinda Province, Angola
• Crude vacuum and decoking unit expansion project for a refinery in Kansas, USA
• Golden Pass LNG import terminal near Sabine Pass, Texas, USA
• Large tankage facility at Shell Pearl GTL (Qatar)
• Hydrotreating and sulfur removal/recovery facilities for several major U.S. refiners
• Liquefied natural gas (LNG) regasification terminal at Quintero Bay, Chile, worth approximately $775 million
• Cat gas hydrotreater (CGHT) in El Paso, Texas, USA
• Hydrogen generation plant in Benecia, Calif., USA
• World's largest propane dehydrogenation unit in Houston, Texas, USA
• Grassroots nuclear contract in the USA
• Multiple Middle East storage facilities
• Oil sands storage tanks in Alberta, Canada
• In November 2004, CB&I was awarded a contract by one of the world's largest suppliers of wind turbines to fabricate 150 tubular steel support towers for wind turbines that were installed in wind farms in the western United States. The towers support 1.5-megawatt wind turbines, which are the largest wind turbines assembled in the United States and the most widely-sold and -tested megawatt-class wind turbines in the world.
• In April 2012, CB&I was awarded a contract for a petrochemicals expansion project in Geismar, Louisiana including the license and basic engineering for the ethylene technology.