CB&I | Engineering News-Record

Top Owners Sourcebook: Trans Mountain Pipeline

Louise Poirier

November 11, 2020

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Trans Mountain has hired CB&I to build 14 tanks in BC

Companies

Oil Services Giant Subsea 7 Makes Hostile $2B Bid for McDermott

Debra K. Rubin

April 23, 2018

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US engineer's board rejects the London-based giant's bid, which would require halting a planned buy of CB&I, but the offer may rise. One analyst is not keen on the counter offer.

Construction Risk Management

Chicago Bridge & Iron's Latest Setback: A $558M Charge

Scott Van Voorhis

August 11, 2017

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The company's recent financial and legal developments have been a roller-coaster.

Climate Change

Team Claims New Power Cycle Generates Without Emissions

Exelon and CB&I are both investors

Thomas F. Armistead

May 24, 2017

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Nearing completion in Texas, a 50-MW power plant will demonstrate a first-of-a-kind natural-gas power system.

Finance

U.S. Nuclear Projects Face Scrutiny as Westinghouse Files for Bankruptcy

Creditors include project contractors Fluor and CB&I

Scott Judy

March 29, 2017

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Westinghouse's bankruptcy filing adds more uncertainty to delayed nuclear expansion projects in Georgia, South Carolina.

Finance

CB&I CEO Asherman: Trust Toshiba to Finish Big Nuke Jobs

CB&I records a substantial loss for a second year in a row

Richard Korman

March 7, 2017

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Philip K. Asherman, chief executive of CB&I, says he believes prime contractor Toshiba Corp. will finish two delayed and over budget nuclear power-plant projects in Georgia and South Carolina.

Novel Tactic Helps Crews Demo Nuclear Reactor Caisson

Contractors at Humboldt Bay Power Plant are building what they say are the deepest cutter soil mix panels ever made using a fixed-mast machine

Scott Blair

May 24, 2016

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On a project decades in the making, crews will soon begin demolishing a defunct nuclear-reactor caisson in Eureka, Calif., at a site located only a few feet from the Pacific Ocean.

Vogtle Nuclear Expansion Builders Pledge Construction, Worker Gains

Scott Judy

May 11, 2016

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Officially commemorating the 130th day under a new contracting team that is leading the $16-billion Plant Vogtle nuclear expansion project, top leaders with Georgia Power and its contractors on May 3 used the milestone to assure craft workers of their commitment to future construction gains.

CB&I at Work on Prototype of Emissionless Natural Gas Power Plant

Housley Carr

March 16, 2016

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A first-of-its-kind natural-gas-fired power plant that will emit no greenhouse gases is now under construction near Houston, and its commercialization is being financed in part by engineering-procurement-construction contractor CB&I, with the hope CB&I will be the go-to builder for larger versions of the plant in the future.