The United States Navy has awarded Fluor Marine Propulsion a $2.41 billion contract modification for work at the Naval Nuclear Laboratory, Construction Dive reported on November 2, citing the Navy’s October 23 release. The award is a cost plus fixed fee modification covering nuclear propulsion work, the technology that powers the Navy’s submarines and aircraft carriers.
The work is concentrated in two places: Pittsburgh accounts for about 47 percent of the contract and Schenectady, New York for about 45 percent, with the remaining 8 percent in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Fluor Marine Propulsion is a subsidiary of Irving, Texas based Fluor, and the Naval Nuclear Laboratory is the organisation that develops advanced naval nuclear propulsion technology.
The award lands as Fluor builds out its energy and nuclear order book. In September the company won a $7.5 billion contract on the second phase of LNG Canada’s export facility in Kitimat, British Columbia, which will add two liquefaction trains and double the plant’s capacity, and it is providing engineering, procurement and construction management on Novelis’s $5 billion aluminium recycling plant in Bay Minette, Alabama. Fluor reports third quarter earnings on November 6.