KELLOGG, BROWN AND ROOT

Kellogg, Brown and Root

Kellogg, Brown and Root

Introduction

KBR, Inc is an American engineering and construction, earlier subsidiary Halliburton, based in Houston. After Halliburton acquired Dresser Industries in 1998, the engineering subsidiary Dresser, Kellogg Co., Has been merged with the construction of subsidiary company Halliburton, Brown & Root to form Kellogg Brown & Root. KBR and its predecessors have received a lot of contracts with the U.S. military, including during the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the Second World War and the Vietnam War. KBR is the largest non-construction Union, the United States. Corporate offices are in KBR tower in the center of Houston.

KBR history began over 100 years when in 1901, Morris W. Kellogg, opened a small business is the production of pipes in New York, which grew at an engineering company in the world, known as the class of Kellogg. Kellogg experience in engineering has led to new technologies, which became the basis of oil refining and petrochemical processing, remains an important part of the KBR today.

Another milestone in the history of the KBR was established in 1919 when brothers George and Herman Brown, in partnership with his brother in law Dan Root, to start building a company called Brown and Root. The company made its first mark, when the contract with the U. S. Government to build the ships and Corpus Christi, Naval Air Station during World War II. Brown & Root continued success after the construction of an offshore platform in the world, first in 1947. Finally, Brown and Root has expanded its capabilities to become a recognized road construction company and general contractor. Brown and Root was acquired by Halliburton's oilfield services in 1962. (Gomez, Luis David, and Robert Balkin, 2008, 19) In 1988, Dresser Industries, supplier of integrated services and project management for oil and gas, acquired MW Kellogg, 10 years later, the beauty was acquired by Halliburton. As a result, the engineering subsidiary Dresser, Kellogg, along with the construction subsidiary Halliburton, Brown and Root, to form subsidiary known as Kellogg Brown & Root, Inc (Gomez, Luis David, and Robert Balkin, 2008, 19)

KBR remained part of Halliburton for 44 years until they were officially separated in April 2007 as an independent company. Today, KBR employs more than 50,000 people and is considered a world leader in the design, construction and services company supporting the energy, petrochemicals, government services and civil infrastructure sectors. KBR serves its clients a wide range of products and services through its Energy and Chemicals (E & C), Government & Infrastructure (G & I) and segments of the business. (Gomez, Luis David, and Robert Balkin, 2008, 19)

a) Leadership And Team Dynamics

As in any company - public or private - however, the demand for return on investment has always been shown to increase. Since 2002, KBR is working with Total resources (TCM) to deliver this analysis to quantify. TRM KBR has recently worked to help demonstrate how the KBR will be able to support ...