Fluor Corporation

Fluor Corporation is an international company from the United States, headquartered in Irving, Texas. The company is listed on the S & P 500. The company has more than 41,000 people are employed worldwide and locations of the company are located in more than 25 countries.

The company is active in the fields of petroleum, natural gas, chemistry, biotechnology, microelectronics, mining, nuclear decommissioning, electric power, telecommunications and transportation. Focus of the company is the petroleum industry.

In Fortune magazine in 2006, the company is ranked four out of ten listed in the most admired American companies (America 's Most Admired Companies ).

Company History

The company was founded in 1890 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin under the name Rudolph fluorine & Brothers. In 1924 the company name to Fluor Brothers Construction Company. In the 1920s, the company acquired experience in the oil and gas market and was in the following years to a big player in the construction of oil refineries.

In the 1940s, the company built refineries in Canada, Venezuela and Saudi Arabia, and began after the second world war with the construction of nuclear power plants and built for the U.S. Air Force at the Dhahran Air Base.

In the 1960s, the company built oil refineries in South Korea, specializing in the offshore sector. In the following decade Fluor Corporation acquired the company Daniel International Corporation and changed the company name to Fluor Daniel. In the 1990s, the company ADP and Marshall Contractors were acquired.