BAZAN Group - Wikipedia

The company's beginnings date back to the British Mandate for Palestine when Consolidated Refineries Limited (CRL), a joint venture of Shell and the Anglo-American Oil Company (now Esso),[7] started constructing a sprawling en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAZAN_Gro…
refinery complex which sat at the end of the British-built Mosul-Haifa oil pipeline which stretched from the oil fields near Kirkuk in then British-controlled Iraq Construction of the first refinery unit started in 1938 and was carried out by the M. W. Kellogg Co. with assistance
from Solel Boneh, with an annual capacity of two million tons of crude oil. KBR, Inc. (formerly Kellogg Brown & Root) is a U.S. based company that delivers science, technology and engineering solutions.[2] KBR works in various markets including aerospace, defense, industrial
and intelligence.[3] After Halliburton acquired Dresser Industries in 1998, Dresser's engineering subsidiary, the M. W. Kellogg Co., was merged with Halliburton's construction subsidiary, Brown & Root, to form Kellogg Brown & Root. KBR and its predecessors have received many
contracts with the U.S. military including during World War II, the Vietnam War, and the Iraq War. Democratic Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson, later President of the United States, was instrumental in providing government contracts for Brown & Root,

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