MOSCOW (MRC) -- CB&I, one of the largest providers of engineering and construction services, has completed its acquisition of another US-based engineering company The Shaw Group, according to Hydrocarbonprocessing.
The deal was first announced in July 2012, and CB&I and Shaw shareholders overwhelmingly approved the transaction in December 2012.
"With the close of the transaction, CB&I is the most complete energy infrastructure focused company in the world. Through our now 50,000 talented employees, we have the capabilities and the expertise to provide our clients with a world of solutions, and a tremendous strategic advantage in responding to the growing demand for energy infrastructure around the globe," said Philip K. Asherman, CEO of CB&I.
Reports have valued the overall deal at approximately USD3 billion. CB&I had said that combining the two companies would create "one of the most complete engineering, procurement, fabrication, construction, maintenance, and associated services companies in the world."
CB&I plans to operate Shaw as a business sector under the brand name CB&I Shaw, the company said, enabling the new company to retain Shaw’s brand equity, particularly in the power industry. Headquarters functions at The Shaw Group's former offices in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, have shifted to The Woodlands, Texas, where CB&I is based.
We remind that, as MRC reported earlier, CB&I had been awarded contracts from Oxychem for the technology license, basic engineering and front-end engineering and design (FEED) services for a proposed new ethane cracker. The cracker is anticipated to have a capacity of approximately 1.2 billion lb/year of ethylene, or just above 500,000 tpa, with operations to start up in 2016. Besides, CB&I had got a contract from PETRONAS for the license and engineering design work for five petrochemicals units and a contract from Huating Coal Group for the license, basic engineering and related services for a polypropylene (PP) plant at the Huating industrial development area in China.
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