definition for: #KBR

KBR, Inc. operates as an engineering, construction, and services company worldwide. The company operates through three segments: Technology & Consulting, Engineering & Construction, and Government Services. The Technology & Consulting segment offers various services and solutions, including licensing, engineering and design, proprietary equipment, plant automation, catalysts, and related consulting services to hydrocarbons, chemicals, and fertilizer markets. This segment provides field development and planning, technology selection and optimization of capital spending, offshore integrity management, and structural analysis for production platforms; and feasibility and revamp studies, as well as planning activities related to the development and construction of refining, petrochemical, chemical, and fertilizer complexes. This segment also offers technology related services to semi-submersible hull design and monohull vessels, as well as drillship and floating production, storage, and offshore vessels; technologies for conversion of heavy hydrocarbon streams to fuels in the refining markets, and technologies for the conversion and production of olefins; and ammonia process technology solutions for the ammonia and fertilizer markets, as well as clean coal gasification technology. The Engineering & Construction segment provides engineering and EPC services for the development, construction, and commissioning of projects in the offshore, onshore and liquefied natural gas, and gas-to-liquids markets; and liquefaction, regasification, floating LNG, and floating storage and regasification units. The Government Services segment offers construction, refurbishment, operations and maintenance of housing, and other facilities for military personnel, as well as operations support, embassy and other life support programs, heavy equipment transportation, and police facilities management integration services. KBR, Inc. was founded in 1901 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.