Agrium awards two contracts to KBR

Houston—KBR said March 12 that Agrium Inc. has awarded the company two engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contracts for a new grassroots urea plant and to increase the ammonia capacity for Agrium’s Lone Star Project in Borger, Texas. Upon completion, the world-scale facility will produce approximately 670,000 tons of urea per year and 700,000 tons per year of ammonia. The contract values, which were not disclosed, were included in the 2013 second and third quarter backlog of unfilled orders for the Hydrocarbons segment.