Jacobs Receives Suncor Contract

PASADENA, Calif., May 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE: JEC) announced today that it received a contract to provide engineering services for Suncor's Upgrader 2 (U2) 2010 Reliability projects near Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada.

Officials did not disclose the contract value.

Jacobs Engineering will provide engineering services for a number of reliability projects in Suncor's U2 Heavy Oil Upgrader complex. The various projects are planned to be completed during the U2 2010 plant outage. Jacobs's scope encompasses design basis memorandum (DBM) through detail engineering phases.

In making this announcement, Jacobs Group Vice President Chip Mitchell stated, "We are pleased to continue our business partnership with Suncor. This important opportunity allows us to apply our global process expertise to a challenging reliability project, delivering real value to a long-term client."

Jacobs, with annual revenues exceeding $12 billion, is one of the world's largest and most diverse providers of technical, professional, and construction services.

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