Philippines Timeline

In 1888, John Simon "Si" Fluor emigrated from Switzerland to America in search of challenges and opportunity. He previously trained as a journeyman carpenter in the Swiss guild and brought with him the ethos that system embodied — a reverence for craftsmanship and the ambition to build structures that would outlast the builder.

In 1912, Mr. Fluor founded Fluor Construction Company in Santa Ana, California, leading the company until his death in 1944. Fluor Construction Company performed general contracting at the start and quickly gained a reputation for quality and innovation.

The lump-sum 50,000-metric-tonne/yr. grassroots plant included a two-train continuous solvent polymerization plant that produced high-impact and general purpose polystyrene with its design based on Fina licensed technology. Fluor executed engineering, procurement of major offshore equipment and bulk materials and construction management.

Fluor, in a joint venture with Raytheon Engineers and Constructors, designed and built a $2.2 billion grassroots refinery for the Rayong Refinery Company, a joint venture of Petroleum Authority of Thailand, the Thai National Oil Company, and Shell International. The project was awarded Thailand's National Safety Award for construction.

Fluor performed engineering, procurement, and construction on the world’s largest greenfield mining project at the time on the remote island of Sumbawa in Indonesia with no infrastructure, a sparse and unskilled workforce, amid economic and political turmoil. Fluor completed engineering in 1996, and completed construction in 2001.

Construction for P.T. Freeport's Indonesia Solid-fueled Power Plant began in 1996 and commercial operation of the plant was achieved in 1999. The Fluor partnership designed and built the power generation assets to support P.T. Freeport Indonesia's mining operations.

Fluor provided engineering, procurement, and construction management to Silterra for a wafer fab facility in Malaysia. The project was the winner of Semiconductor International's Top Fab of 2002 award, an annual recognition of the world’s best fabrication facilities. The award recognized Silterra's commitment to provide high quality process technologies to clients in the semiconductor marketplace.

PTT chose Fluor as the project manager for a large ethane separation plant at Rayong. Fluor managed the EPC scope and commissioning. The plant is one of the world's largest gas processing facilities; it is capable of producing 800 million standard cubic feet a day.

Fluor provided EPCM services for REC's solar production manufacturing facility. This facility was the largest single investment ever made by REC, the largest clean tech investment ever made in Singapore at 2.5 billion Singapore dollars (about EUR 1.3 billion).

Malampaya Phase 3 involves the design, fabrication and installation of a new depletion compression platform that will be linked by a bridge to the existing shallow water platform. Fluor is responsible for the engineering and procurement for the new depletion compression platform as well as modifications required on the existing platform.

The Shell Philippines Exploration Malampaya Phase 3 (MP3) Project was named a finalist for Engineering Project of the Year for the Platts Global Energy Awards. With a production capacity of 550 million standard-cubic-feet-per-day of compressed gas, Malampaya Phase 3 will provide the largest source of energy for the Philippines.

Petroliam Nasional Berhad (PETRONAS), Malaysia’s national oil and gas company, is developing the $27 billion Pengerang Integrated Complex (PIC) in Johor, Malaysia – one of the largest of the kind in the world constructed at a single time. At the heart of PIC is the Refinery and Petrochemical Integrated Development (RAPID) project. Fluor's Manila office is responsible for the engineering and procurement scope of the Utilities, Interconnecting and Offsites (UIO), benefiting from the wealth of UIO experience developed in Manila over the last 15 years.