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FLUOR WINS GAS PROJECT CONTRACT IN NORWAY

ALISO VIEJO - The Fluor Corp.has been awarded a $57 million contract to design and construct the Export Capacity Upgrading Project at the Kollsnes Gas Terminal by Statoil A/S, Norway's largest energy company.

Fluor has lump-sum turnkey responsibility for engineering, procurement and construction of the new facilities.

Located on the country's west coast, near Bergen, the Kollsnes terminal is the largest gas processing facility in Norway, owned by Gassled, the Norwegian pipeline system, and operated by Gassco, the state gas company.

The project includes a new gas compression train and revamp of the existing facilities. The expanded facility will increase gas export capacity by 20% to 143 million standard cubic meters per day to meet the increasing demand for gas to the United Kingdom and the rest of the European Union.

The project will be led from Fluor's Haarlem office in the Netherlands and executed with a Norwegian partner, Reinertsen A/S, which will provide engineering, procurement and construction services for civil, steel and piping work.
 
Construction will commence in May 2005 and is scheduled for completion a year later, with the new compressor train going on stream in August 2006.

NISSAN BLAMES JEWELRY ON THE ASSEMBLY LINE

CANTON, Mississippi - Puzzled Nissan Motor Co. engineers inspecting the company's $1.4 billion Mississippi assembly plant traced vehicle paint flaws and scratches to the watches, wedding rings, belt buckles and bracelets that assembly line workers were wearing on the job.
 
In June, Nissan dispatched 200 mechanical, structural, electrical, chemical and materials engineers from its Tokyo headquarters after a J.D. Power and Associates Initial Quality Study published consumer complaints about Nissan vehicles manufactured in the US.
 
The study, published annually, questioned 51,000 consumers who bought or leased 2004-model trucks and cars.

Consumer gripes about vehicles made at the Canton, Mississippi factory included wind noise, vibrating brake pedals, and paint blemishes.

The plant, which opened in May 2003, produces the Altima sedan, the Quest minivan, the Armada sport utility vehicle and the Titan truck for Nissan and the QX56 SUV for Infiniti. Nissan also makes Altimas at a Smyrna, Tenn., plant.
 
"The engineers walked the Canton assembly line, watched workers getting in and out of cars, studied their movements," said a Nissan spokesman. "Wet paint can be mutilated very easily so the engineers walked the whole assembly line then focused on the area where the paint is still wet."

That's when the engineers spotted jewelry inflicting scratches and paint smears.
 
The spokesman said workers have been ordered to remove their all jewelry and metal accessories before taking their places on the assembly line.
 
FOSTER GEOTECH AWARDED SEA-TAC CONTRACT

SAN DIEGO - L.B. Foster Company's Geotechnical Division has been awarded a $7.7 million contract for the Port of Seattle's Third Runway project at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
 
Foster Geotechnical- which manufactures Mechanically Stabilized Earth (MSE) retaining walls and highway concrete sound barriers - will supply approximately 200,000 square feet of precast concrete fascia panel MSE walls, which will be fabricated by the company's subsidiary, CXT Inc. in Spokane.

Delivery is expected to begin in the fourth quarter of 2004.

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