Horton CBI, Limited (Horton CBI), a wholly owned subsidiary of CB&I, has been awarded a sizeable engineering, procurement, fabrication and construction (EPFC) contract by a leading Canadian infrastructure company. The scope of work includes the delivery of two liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) Hortonspheres®, following the successful completion of three similar spheres for the same client in 2018.
Each sphere will measure 25 metres in diameter and offer a storage capacity of 8,200 cubic metres. Fabrication will take place at CB&I’s Kasemphol facility in Thailand, with the units to be transported to Canada as sub-assemblies. The Kasemphol facility, located close to the Sattahip Deep Sea Port, specialises in the manufacture of onshore modules, structural steel and prefabricated storage tanks. Covering more than 203,000 square metres, the site is equipped to deliver full turnkey fabrication services.
Onsite activities in Canada are expected to include erection, post-weld heat treatment, hydrotesting, external coating and fireproofing, with the overall construction phase anticipated to take approximately 18 months.
CB&I has maintained an operational presence in Canada for more than 110 years and continues to support energy infrastructure developments across the region. The company’s long-standing experience in spherical storage pressure vessels has underpinned ongoing improvements in design and construction methodologies, supported by comprehensive quality assurance and safety processes throughout project execution.
CB&I pioneered the field-welding of spherical storage vessels in the 1920s and constructed the world’s first field-erected Hortonsphere® in 1923. Since then, the company has designed and built thousands of spherical storage vessels worldwide, including liquid storage spheres of up to 28.6 metres in diameter and gas storage spheres reaching 33.5 metres.
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