Fluor Corporation was founded by John Simon Fluor in 1890 in Wisconsin as the Fluor Brothers Construction Company. Fluor Brothers was awarded a contract to build a natural gasoline plant for Richfield Oil in 1922, thereby establishing itself in the oil and gas industry.
The U.S. Air Force contracted the company to build Saudi Arabia’s Dhahran Air Base in 1955.
Offshore operations began in 1967 and the company built its first hydrocracker plant for the American Oil Company in Texas City.
In 1977 the company merged with Daniel International Corporation, emerging from the merger with the new name, Fluor Daniel.
From 1981 to 2000 the company was involved with mining of lead, zinc, and coal. It sold most of the mining divisions and spun-off its coal operations to Massey Energy Corporation.
In 2009 Fluor entered the solar business, when it was contracted to design a solar thermal plant in partnership with ESolar of California.
Today Fluor is a professional service company which provides construction, engineering, maintenance, procurement, and project management services. Fluor is part of the S&P 500 and the Fortune 500. It has 41,000 employees worldwide and had $27.577 billion in revenue in 2012.