Fluor Wins Contracts for Foreign Projects

IRVINE —  Fluor Daniel, the construction services arm of Fluor Corp., said Monday it has won two large engineering and construction contracts for foreign projects.

The company was awarded a $330-million contract for work on an Australian iron mine project and is part of an international consortium awarded a deal valued at about $1 billion to build, own and operate the world’s largest nitrogen generating facility, in Campeche, Mexico.

Fluor’s joint venture subsidiary in Mexico, ICA Fluor Daniel, will provide construction project management, engineering, materials procurement and construction services for the huge nitrogen plant project in conjunction with a German partner, Linde AG. ICA Fluor Daniel is jointly owned by Fluor Daniel and Mexico’s Grupo ICA.

Pemex, the Mexican oil giant, awarded the contract. The facility, expected to begin production in the spring of 2000, will produce 44,300 tons of nitrogen per day at full capacity. The nitrogen will be transported by pipeline and injected into wells in Pemex’s Cantarell oil field, in Campeche Sound in the Gulf of Mexico, about 50 miles off shore.

The Australian contract was awarded by Rio Tinto Ltd.’s Hamersley Iron unit and calls for Fluor Daniel to provide engineering, procurement and construction management services for the Yandicoogina iron ore project in western Australia.

Fluor Daniel said its Australian unit will design and build an ore processing plant, an associated mine and supporting infrastructure including a 93-mile railway.

Construction will start immediately with the first shipments of ore scheduled for mid-1999. Total value of the project is $513 million.