KBR, Inc. announced it has been awarded a contract by Papua New Guinea's Department of Petroleum to provide ongoing consulting, advisory and engineering services in relation to multiple new and existing energy and resource developments located across Papua New Guinea, including upstream, LNG and downstream sectors.

Under the terms of the agreement, KBR will provide these services utilizing strategy and technical specialists from multiple offices including Singapore, Australia, London and Houston.

This award by the Department of Petroleum, an office of the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is testament to KBR's long-term strategic commitment to this promising and rapidly developing market.

"KBR is proud to help the Government of Papua New Guinea harness the full potential of their future energy developments," said Jay Ibrahim, KBR President, Europe, Middle East and Africa and Asia-Pacific. "We are excited to showcase our extensive expertise to help grow this key market."

A proven leader in the consulting, engineering and construction industry with extensive history across various markets, KBR's depth of knowledge and experience translates into providing optimized strategic solutions to meet a customer's specific needs. This landmark partnership will enable KBR to further its ongoing commitment to providing integrated and diversified services, expertise and capabilities to meet clients' multi-faceted requirements.

About KBR, Inc.

KBR (NYSE: KBR) is a global provider of differentiated professional services and technologies across the asset and program life cycle within the Government Services and Hydrocarbons sectors. KBR employs approximately 34,000 people worldwide (including our joint ventures), with customers in more than 75 countries, and operations in 40 countries, across three synergistic global businesses:
- Government Services, serving government customers globally, including capabilities that cover the full life-cycle of defense, space, aviation and other government programs and missions from research and development, through systems engineering, test and evaluation, program management, to operations, maintenance, and field logistics
- Technology & Consulting, including proprietary technology focused on the monetization of hydrocarbons (especially natural gas and natural gas liquids) in ethylene and petrochemicals; ammonia, nitric acid and fertilizers; oil refining; gasification; oil and gas consulting; integrity management; naval architecture and proprietary hulls; and downstream consulting
- Engineering & Construction, including onshore oil and gas; LNG (liquefaction and regasification)/GTL; oil refining; petrochemicals; chemicals; fertilizers; differentiated EPC; maintenance services (Brown & Root Industrial Services); offshore oil and gas (shallow-water, deep-water, subsea); floating solutions (FPU, FPSO, FLNG & FSRU) and program management