Fluor Corporation today (March 21) announced that it has received notification from Kuwait National Petroleum Company to stop work on the utilities and offsites for the al-Zour refinery.

Fluor has approximately 300 employees performing engineering work on the project. The remaining contract value of approximately $2.1 billion will be removed from the company’s backlog in the first quarter.

Headquartered in Irving, Texas, Fluor is a FORTUNE 200 company and had revenues of $22.3 billion in 2008. – TradeArabia News Service