Fluor Daniel Inc

Fluor Daniel Inc., the Irvine-based engineering subsidiary of Fluor Corp., said Friday it has signed a three-year marketing alliance with a New Jersey biotechnology company. Envirogen Inc. will join with Fluor to market biological treatment systems for hazardous waste pollutants. The companies will look at the applications of new technology for controlling air pollution.

Engineering and construction giant Fluor Corp. in Aliso Viejo joined with bridge builder Mich-Can International Bridge Co. in proposing construction of a second bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Canada, to speed border crossings. Fluor's Fluor Daniel unit and closely held Mich-Can called for the new span across the Detroit River to be a few miles south of the Ambassador Bridge, which along with a tunnel now links the cities.

Fluor Daniel, the engineering and construction unit of Fluor Corp. in Aliso Viejo, said Thursday that it has been awarded a $20.8-million contract for the engineering, procurement and construction of a hydrogen desulfurization facility in Portugal. The contract, awarded by Petrogal, an oil refining company, is Fluor's first lump-sum turnkey job in Portugal and its first time working with Petrogal.

Fluor Daniel Inc. said it was awarded a contract valued at more than $60 million to provide engineering and construction services for Mobil North Sea Ltd., a subsidiary of Mobil Corp. Fluor Daniel will provide services for expansion of Mobil's natural-gas processing plant, the Scottish Area Gas Evaluation terminal, on the northeast coast of Scotland.

Fluor Daniel Inc. said Monday an Australian subsidiary has acquired Signet Engineering Group, a privately owned engineering company with expertise in processing gold, diamonds and other minerals. Terms of the acquisition by Fluor Daniel Pty. Ltd. were not disclosed, but Signet will continue to operate under its own name at its headquarters in Perth, Australia, Fluor Daniel said.

Fluor Daniel Inc. said Monday it has received a $100-million contract to design and build a chemicals plant in Singapore for Hoechst Celanese Chemical Group. The plant, to be completed in mid-1997, will produce vinyl acetate monomer, a chemical used in paint, paper, textiles and packaging. Fluor Daniel, an engineering and construction firm, is the principal unit of Irvine-based Fluor Corp. Hoechst Celanese, a Dallas-based chemicals firm, is part of Germany's Hoechst AG.

Fluor Daniel Inc. said Tuesday it has won a contract to manage the design, procurement and construction of a $2.6-billion petrochemical project in Nanjing, China, for BASF-YPC Co. Fluor said services such as those it has been contracted to perform generally range between 4% and 6% of a contract's total value. Construction is scheduled to begin in 2002, and the petrochemical site is expected to be fully functional by 2005. The project will include nine facilities.

The event: The seventh annual production of "La Posada Magica" at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa. The audience for Sunday's opening of the popular Latino holiday play included fourth- and fifth-grade students from Washington Elementary in Santa Ana and their teachers. The children, guests of SCR, were finalists in a schoolwide writing contest on family Christmas traditions. Booklets with copies of their poetry and essays were tucked into the programs.

Fluor Corp.'s Fluor Daniel engineering and construction unit said Tuesday that it has received an $800-million contract to oversee the development and installation of a petrochemical plant in Saudi Arabia. Fluor said in a press release that it expects to book $10 million in the third quarter for initial program management and engineering services on the project. Saudi International Petrochemical Co.

Duke/Fluor Daniel, a joint venture of Duke Energy Corp. and Fluor Corp., won the contract to build Columbia Energy Group's power plant near Philadelphia. Terms weren't disclosed. The natural gas-fired Liberty plant in Eddystone, Pa., is expected to begin operating in early 2002. It will produce 530 megawatts of electricity, enough to light more than a half-million homes. Duke, which is based in Charlotte, N.C.

Fluor Daniel, the engineering, construction and procurement subsidiary of Fluor Corp., said Thursday that it has agreed to become an approved contractor for certain technologies of a British chemicals company. Terms of the deal with ICI Chlor Chemicals were not disclosed. The Aliso Viejo company said it will have a license to build large-scale chlor-alkali plants for the production of caustic soda and chlorine that uses a new ICI technology known as BiChlor.

The U.S. attorney's office said Thursday it will prosecute a whistle-blower lawsuit accusing Aliso Viejo-based Fluor Daniel Inc. of overbilling the government for $9.3 million in contract overhead expenses. The civil lawsuit was filed under seal in 1997 by a former Fluor Daniel accountant. It was unsealed last week by a judge in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana. Flour Daniel is a subsidiary of Fluor Corp., the largest U.S. engineering and construction company. In the suit, Patrick C.

A joint venture that includes Fluor Daniel has been given a preliminary nod to supply program management services for a $2.14 billion railway construction and engineering project to improve one of the United Kingdom's most heavily traveled rail lines, Aliso Viejo-based Fluor announced Wednesday. Financial terms were not disclosed. The venture, which also includes Mott McDonald, would provide "front-end" services for the seven-year project.

Aliso Viejo-based Fluor Daniel and British engineering firm Amec PLC are jointly pursuing several multimillion-dollar oil and gas engineering and construction projects in the Caspian Sea and Vietnam, a Fluor Daniel official said Wednesday. The potential value of the contracts ranges from $150 million to several billion dollars, said Charles Sands, senior vice president, oil and gas power at Fluor Daniel.