KBR believes customers also want one primary vendor, writes Jennifer Pallanich.

“This is why we purchased GVA all those years ago. The one-stop shop means we can offer the hull, mooring and topsides in one organisation,” says Graham Hill, KBR executive vice president for global business development and strategy.

He says some of the work the company has recently completed for BP Mad Dog Phase 2 has demonstrated KBR’s ability to optimise the topsides, get the weight down and make the development far more cost effective.