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The Corps of Engineers
has awarded a contract to Kellogg Brown & Root to carry
out a plan to assess and put out oil well fires in Iraq and
also to repair damaged petroleum infrastructure there. KBR,
a unit of Halliburton Co., announced the award on March 24,
but declined to disclose the contract's value.
KBR says it is subcontracting
the firefighting work to Boots & Coots International Well
Control Inc. and Wild Well Control Inc., both based in Houston.
KBR wouldn't specify how much
or what type of equipment it is using for the work, but did
say nine cargo plane loads of equipment have been "mobilized
to the region" so far for the task. It also says all the oil
well fires should be extinguished in 240 days.
In November, under an Army Logistics
Civil Augmentation Program contract, the Dept. of Defense
asked KBR to put together a contingency plan for Iraq oilfield
firefighting and repairing petroleum facilities. The firm
now is carrying out the plan through a separate contract from
the Corps. KBR says that new contract "will be used for an
interim period" until the Corps issues "additional contracts
to provide a broad range of services required to support full
execution of the contingency plan."
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