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The company also provides specialty consulting services including field development studies and planning, structural integrity management, and proprietary designs for ship and semi-submersible hulls.

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Energy Transition

Samsung commissions KBR blue ammonia study

Samsung Heavy Industries has awarded KBR a conceptual study for floating blue ammonia production.

Sept. 13, 2024

Petrobras signed contracts earlier this year with Seatrium O&G Americas Ltd. to acquire the P-84 (Atapu) and P-85 (Sépia) vesssel platforms.

Vessels

KBR supporting Seatrium on Petrobras topsides design

Seatrium Group has contracted KBR to help develop topsides facilities for two new energy-efficient FPSOs that Petrobras has commissioned for its Atapu and Sepia fields.

Sept. 6, 2024

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Equipment Engineering

SOCAR-KBR awarded Shah Deniz gas compression engineering contract

bp has contracted the SOCAR-KBR LLC joint venture in Baku to support two new projects in Azerbaijan.

July 15, 2025

KBR played a key role in designing and delivering bp’s Azeri Central East (ACE) platform. Leveraging visualization and analysis tools, KBR's engineers constructed a unified 3D digital twin model replicating every feature of the platform in vivid detail. The first production well was spudded from the ACE platform in the Caspian Sea in December 2023.

Equipment Engineering

Digital engineering: How integrating technology with human expertise is unlocking new efficiencies

The smart use of digital and data is helping navigate the competing demands of affordability and risk.

Sept. 6, 2024

Energy Transition

Data analytics in offshore projects play crucial role in achieving net zero

Adopting advanced data analysis techniques is crucial to understand the full lifecycle of carbon emissions.

June 11, 2024

Pluto LNG processes gas from the offshore Pluto and Xena gas fields in Western Australia. Gas is piped through a 180 km trunkline to a single onshore LNG-processing train.

Australia & New Zealand

KBR modifying Pluto LNG for Scarborough gas

Woodside has awarded KBR an EPC management contract to perform modifications to Train 1 of the Pluto LNG complex near Karratha, Western Australia.

Sept. 25, 2023

Shell’s Vito semisubmersible employs a simplified and cost-efficient host structure that was redesigned in 2015. The field came online in February 2023.

Field Development

New benchmarking analysis may provide needed recalibration for project cycle times

Data reviewed from six recent semisubmersible FPU projects in the Gulf of Mexico.

Aug. 9, 2023

The Hollandse Kust Noord wind farm is located about 18.5 km off North Holland. CrossWind will install 69 wind turbines, and the electricity cable connecting the wind farm to the offshore power socket will be installed by TenneT.

Renewable Energy

KBR supporting North Sea wind/energy storage development

KBR will provide engineering services for an offshore energy storage project in the Dutch North Sea for CrossWind, a joint venture between Shell and Eneco.

Dec. 5, 2022

Renewable Energy

KBR joins ammonia rig fuel collaboration

KBR will perform a study to develop a green ammonia-based power system for a semisubmersible drilling rig owned by Odfjell.

Sept. 9, 2022