Houston energy engineering firm sees substantial employee growth

One of Houston’s largest energy engineering firms had a busy 2019.

Houston-based S&B Engineers and Constructors Ltd. hired nearly 4,000 employees in the Houston area over the past 12 months. That is a 96 percent increase from 3,978 employees in January of 2019 to 7,813 employees reported in December.

According to S & B Engineering, the greatest growth was the “direct hire construction craft workforce.” This was due to a few large projects for the firm.

On June 25, 2019, S&B announced that it was selected by LyondellBasell (NYSE: LYB) to construct part of its project to install the world’s largest propylene oxide (PO) and tertiary butyl alcohol (TBA) plant. According to the press release, the PO/TBA will be split in to two main facilities. The PO/TBA plant is located in Channelview, and an ethers unit will be located in Pasadena.

S&B also was chosen for the fixed-cost engineering, procurement and construction contract to build Houston-based Enterprise Products Partners LP’s (NYSE: EPD) second propane dehydrogenation plant at Enterprise’s complex in Mont Belvieu area.

Additionally, S&B said it completed milestones on projects that could not be discussed due to confidentiality purposes. However, the firm did complete 15 million hours of EPC work in Mont Belvieu for Dallas-based Energy Transfer LP (NYSE: ET). This is continuous work across nine EPC projects dating from 2011.

S&B Engineers was No. 4 on the Houston Business Journal’s 2019 Largest Houston-Area Energy Engineering Firms List, which is based on local licensed engineers. The List was last published in April, and S&B had 182 local licensed engineers at the time.

By Margaret Barrientos  – Data reporter

Courtesy of Houston Business Journal

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