Business description of KBR-Inc from last 10-k form

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Forward-Looking and Cautionary Statements
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Item 1. Business
General
KBR, Inc. and its subsidiaries (collectively, “KBR”) is a global engineering, construction and services company supporting the energy, hydrocarbon, government services, minerals, civil infrastructure, power and industrial sectors. We offer a wide range of services through six business units; Government and Infrastructure (“G&I”), Upstream, Services, Downstream, Technology and Ventures.  See Note 7 to our consolidated financial statements for financial information about our reportable business segments.
KBR, Inc. was incorporated in Delaware on March 21, 2006 as an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Halliburton Company (“Halliburton”). KBR was formed to own and operate KBR Holdings, LLC (“KBR Holdings”), which was contributed to KBR by Halliburton in November 2006.  In November 2006, KBR, Inc. completed an initial public offering of 32,016,000 shares, or approximately 19%, of its common stock.  On April 5, 2007, Halliburton completed the separation of KBR through a tax-free exchange with Halliburton’s stockholders of the remaining 135,627,000 shares of KBR owned by Halliburton for publicly held shares of Halliburton common stock pursuant to the terms of an exchange offer commenced by Halliburton on March 2, 2007.  See “Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations – Transactions with Former Parent” for further discussion regarding our relationship with Halliburton.
Recent acquisitions and dispositions
In June 2007, we completed the disposition of our 51% interest in Devonport Management Limited (“DML”) to Babcock International Group plc. DML owns and operates Devonport Royal Dockyard, one of Western Europe’s largest naval dockyard complexes. Our DML operations, which were part of our G&I business unit, primarily involved refueling nuclear submarines and performing maintenance on surface vessels for the U.K. Ministry of Defence as well as limited commercial projects.
In April 2008, we acquired 100% of the outstanding common stock of Turnaround Group of Texas, Inc. (“TGI”) and Catalyst Interactive. TGI is a Houston-based turnaround management and consulting company that specializes in the planning and execution of turnarounds and outages in the petrochemical, power, and pulp & paper industries. Catalyst Interactive is an Australian e-learning and training solution provider that specializes in the defense, government and industry training sectors. TGI’s results of operations are included in our Services business unit. Catalyst Interactive’s results of operations are included in our Government & Infrastructure business unit.
In July 2008, we acquired 100% of the outstanding common shares of BE&K, Inc., (“BE&K”) a privately held, Birmingham, Alabama-based engineering, construction and maintenance services company. The acquisition of BE&K enhances our ability to provide contractor and maintenance services in North America.  BE&K and its acquired divisions were integrated into our Services, Downstream and Government & Infrastructure business units based upon the nature of the underlying projects acquired.
In October 2008, we acquired 100% of the outstanding common stock of Wabi Development Corporation (“Wabi”). Wabi was a privately held Canada-based general contractor, which provides services for the energy, forestry and mining industries. Wabi provides maintenance, fabrication, construction and construction management services to a variety of clients in Canada and Mexico. Wabi was integrated into our Services business unit and it provides additional growth opportunities for our heavy hydrocarbon, forestry, oil sand, general industrial and maintenance services business.
See Note 4 to our consolidated financial statements for further discussion of our recent acquisitions.
Our Business Units
Downstream.  Our Downstream business unit serves clients in the petrochemical, refining, coal gasification and syngas markets, executing projects throughout the world. We leverage our differentiated process technologies, some of which are the most efficient ones available in the market today, and also execute projects using non-KBR technologies, either alone or with joint venture or alliance partners to a wide variety of customers. Downstream’s work with KBR’s Ventures business unit has resulted in creative equity participation structures such as our Egypt Basic Industries Corporation Ammonia plant which offers our customers unique solutions to meet their project development needs. We are a leading contractor in the markets that we serve delivering projects through a variety of service offerings including front-end engineering design (“FEED”), detailed engineering, engineering, procurement and construction (“EPC”), engineering, procurement and construction management  (“EPCM”) and program management. We are dedicated to providing life cycle value to our customers.
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Government and Infrastructure.  Our G&I business unit provides program and project management, contingency logistics, operations and maintenance, construction management, engineering and other services to military and civilian branches of governments and private clients worldwide. We deliver on-demand support services across the full military mission cycle from contingency logistics and field support to operations and maintenance on military bases. A significant portion of our G&I business unit’s current operations relate to the support of the United States government operations in the Middle East, which we refer to as our Middle East operations, and is one of the largest U.S. military deployments since World War II. In the civil infrastructure market, we operate in diverse sectors, including transportation, waste and water treatment and facilities maintenance. We design, construct, maintain and operate and manage civil infrastructure projects ranging from airport, rail, highway, water and wastewater facilities, and mining and mineral processing to regional development programs and major events. We provide many of these services to foreign governments such as the United Kingdom and Australia.
Services. Our Services business unit delivers full scope engineering, construction, construction management, fabrication, maintenance, and turnaround expertise to customers worldwide.  Our experience is broad and based on 90 years of successful project realization beginning with the founding of legacy company Brown & Root in 1919.  With the acquisition of BE&K, our market reach has expanded and now includes power, alternate energy, pulp and paper, industrial and manufacturing, and pharmaceutical industries in addition to our base markets in the oil, gas, oil sands, petrochemicals and hydrocarbon processing industries.  We provide commercial building construction services to education, food and beverage, healthcare, hospitality and entertainment, life science and technology, and mixed use building clients through our Building Group.  KBR Services and its joint venture partner offer maintenance, small capital construction, and drilling support services for offshore oil and gas producing facilities in the Bay of Campeche through the use of semisubmersible vessels.
Technology.  Our Technology business unit offers differentiated process technologies, some of which are the most efficient ones available in the market today, including value-added technologies in the coal monetization, petrochemical, refining and syngas markets. We offer technology licenses, and, in conjunction with our Downstream business unit, offer project management and engineering, procurement and construction for integrated solutions worldwide. We are one of a few engineering and construction companies to possess a technology center, with 80 years of experience in technology research and development.
Upstream.  Our Upstream business unit provides a full range of services for large, complex upstream projects, including liquefied natural gas (“LNG”), gas-to-liquids (“GTL”), onshore oil and gas production facilities, offshore oil and gas production facilities, including platforms, floating production and subsea facilities, and onshore and offshore pipelines. In gas-to-liquids, we are leading the construction of two of the world’s three gas-to-liquids projects under construction or start-up, the size of which exceeds that of almost any other in the industry. Our Upstream business unit has designed and constructed some of the world’s most complex onshore facility and pipeline projects and, in the last 30 years, more than half of the world's operating LNG liquefaction capacity. In oil & gas, we provide integrated engineering and program management solutions for offshore production facilities and subsea developments, including the design of the largest floating production facility in the world to date.