Sustainable Technology Solutions: Integrated Solutions in Focus
With a new focused approach in hydrocarbons and energy transition, KBR's Integrated Solutions business unit is well positioned to provide best-in-class EPCM (engineering, procurement and construction management), project controls management, commissioning, and program management solutions. Integrated Solutions continues to evolve and adapt, whether it be through entering new strategic markets, such as Kuwait, or in industries such as liquefied natural gas, where KBR has designed and delivered approximately a third of the liquefaction capacity worldwide.
What are Integrated Solutions?
Integrated Solutions is the new name for the Asset Solutions business, operating under Sustainable Technology Solutions (formerly Technology Solutions). Integrated Solutions provides world-class integration and supply chain management, digitally enabled design, and engineering.
KBR’s Integrated Solutions is an industry leader in sustainable engineering and project delivery solutions, including front-end and detailed engineering, procurement, construction management, and program management. The business delivers solutions to some of the largest companies in the world — such as Shell, BP and Aramco — in complex and challenging environments. In 2020, Integrated Solutions made a strategic shift to become a more solutions-based provider, aligning with the wider Sustainable Technology Solutions vision.
The Integrated Solutions business comprises two main areas — Integrated Solutions International, led by Ahmed Al-Dadah, and Integrated Solutions Americas, led by Ulysses Goree. Integrated Solutions has employees based all over the world, with main engineering hubs located in Houston, Leatherhead in the U.K. and Chennai, India.
Integrated Solutions’ core capabilities include:
- Cutting-edge, digitally enabled design and engineering
- Best-in-class program management
- Extensive capabilities in remote and complex environments
- Efficient modular designs and standardization of units
- Unique approaches to project capital efficiency with KBR SmartSPENDTM automated real-time project reporting dashboards
- Plant digital twin to enable modern, state-of-the-art operation of facilities
- Remote process data monitoring through KBR InSite® services
- Reliability-based maintenance that enables proactive management across the asset life cycle
Customer of the Future
The Integrated Solutions business targets customers that value KBR’s deep domain expertise delivered with advanced technology. The business is shifting its focus from customers within the traditional oil and gas markets to those that operate within new energy transition industries. Throughout 2021, there will be a greater drive toward developing business from smaller groups of customers, building on positive relationships.
Building on Our 2020 Successes
Regardless of the uncertainty of the market due to COVID-19, the “team of teams” culture and passion for delivery continued to shine. 2020 key highlights include:
- 65% win rate across EMEA and APAC regions
- Won BUA Refinery FEED in Nigeria, operated out of Leatherhead and Chennai operations
- Established KBR-Nipi Joint Venture operating from Kazakhstan, setting us up for growth in 2021 and beyond
- KNPC MAA and MAB Refinery — Integrated Solutions’ first breakthrough into Kuwait as a strategic market
- Secured BOC Majnoon EPCM
- 60% win rate across the Americas
- Venture Global LNG EPC, showcasing the new EPC model
- Secured DuPont Bluestone EPCM
- Won several biomass-to-fuel projects using Shell’s IH2 Technology
- Extended DuPont MSA for an additional two years to continue our 29 years of service to DuPont until 2025 out of the Wilmington Operations Center
- Established a five-year MSA with Lanzatech for Carbon Recycling Technology. Key Energy Transition Project for carbon capture
- LyondellBasell Strategic Partnership Framework Agreement for Major EPCM Projects
- LyondellBasell Markham (MKO) Ethylene Expansion Project EPCM phase
- Motiva FCCU Study at Port Arthur Refinery
With a continued focus on KBR’s energy transition offering and collaboration with the wider Sustainable Technology Solutions businesses, the future for Integrated Solutions looks bright.
