The Shaw Group has opened an office in Abu Dhabi to support its increasing activity across the Middle East. “We are dedicated to expanding our Middle East operations,” said J M Bernhard Jr, chairman, president and CEO of Shaw.

“Having an additional presence in this region will allow us to serve our customers more efficiently and strengthen our position for future projects and services.”
Shaw has numerous projects currently underway in the region, including providing front end engineering design (Feed) services for a grassroots acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) plant for Arabian Petrochemical Company; engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning of a Sabic plant having a capacity of 400,000 tonnes per year; detailed engineering, procurement and construction management services for a plant expansion at Petrokemya in Saudi Arabia.
Shaw is also providing engineering services and licensing for its proprietary Residue Fluid Catalytic Cracking (RFCC) technology to Abu Dhabi Oil Refining Company (Takreer) as part of a major grassroots expansion of refining capacity at the Ruwais Industrial Complex in the UAE.
Shaw has operated an ASME certified pipe fabrication facility in Bahrain since 1994. It is the largest single fabricator of complex industrial piping systems in the United States.
A Fortune 500 company with fiscal year 2008 annual revenues of $7 billion, Shaw is headquartered in Baton Rouge, Los Angeles, and employs approximately 26,000 people at its offices and operations in  globally.