According to the Fortune 500, Fluor is ranked 109th on its list and is ranked as the largest construction company.[44]​[45]​ With offices in 25 countries, many of Fluor's operations are located near natural resources, such as uranium in Canada, oil reserves in the Middle East, and mines in Australia. As of 2011, about 30 percent of Fluor's revenues were located in the United States.[46] The Fluor family owns a 3.5 percent stake in the company, while employees own six percent through its profit-sharing program.[11]

Fluor's Board of Directors has 12 “Independent Directors” and the Executive Chairman. The Independent Directors elect a Lead Independent Director every three years who works as a liaison to the CEO.[47]​ Each Independent Director participates in two or more committees: audit, executive, governance, and organization or compensation.[48]​ Directors are elected by shareholders and serve three-year terms.[47]​ Corporate officers, such as the CEO, are elected annually by a vote of the board.[49]​.

Fluor received an “A” score in the Transparency International anti-corruption study.[50]​ The company holds online and in-person training sessions for staff and operates an ethics hotline. Former President Alan Boeckmann helped create the Partnering Against Corruption Initiative (PACI), through which companies agree to a set of ethical principles.[51] Fluor staff receive anti-corruption training and operate an ethics hotline through virtual or in-person sessions. Fluor maintains a Code of Business Conduct and Ethics.[51] A Marketline SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) analysis indicated that Fluor's environmental work “enhances the company's brand image,” while often lengthy and unpredictable legal disputes “damage the company's brand image and will erode customer trust.”[46]​

According to the Los Angeles Times Fluor is a “major corporate citizen” that supports local charities and civic groups.[43] It started the Fluor Foundation for its charitable work in 1952 and Fluor Cares in 2010.[10] The company began the largest employer-endorsed professional learning program in California with a four-year program for designers in 1982.[52] Fluor operates a virtual university called Fluor University. for its employees.[53]​.

Fluor is a conglomerate that provides engineering, procurement, construction, maintenance and project management services through its subsidiaries.[46]​.

Furthermore, Fluor has also created pollution control products, such as the line of carbon capture products called Econamine.[46]​ According to Fluor's 2013 annual report, 57 percent of its work comes from the oil and gas industry.[54]​ Likewise, according to the company's website, Fluor's work includes

the design and construction of power plants, petrochemical factories, mining facilities, bridges and highways, government buildings and factories. The company also performs nuclear cleanup and other services.[55]​.

Likewise, Fluor provides project directors and administrators, teams of experts, and procurement staff for large projects, who are supported by centralized administrative staff. Fluor has trained more than 100,000 trade employees in Indonesia, the Philippines, Korea, Pakistan, Kuwait and other countries where the necessary job skills were not available locally.[11]​ Additionally, if necessary, Fluor can serve its clients by partnering to create a joint venture with other construction companies with local infrastructure expertise or industry-specific expertise.[46]​.

Fluor acquired shares in Genetech Inc. in 1981[56] and purchased a 10 percent ownership interest in a smelter and refinery facility in Gresik, Indonesia in 1995 for $550 million. In 1994, it invested $650 million in the Beacon Group Energy Investment fund to finance energy projects.[35] Fluor also has a majority ownership interest in NuScale LLC., which is creating a new type of 45-megawatt nuclear reactor known as a small modular reactor.[57]

Fluor's first projects were highway construction and grading but by the late 1920s it was known for the construction of public facilities, industrial complexes,[7]​ and its service to California's growing oil and gas industry.[4][6]​ It began building office and meter manufacturing facilities for the Southern California Gas Company in 1915, as well as a compressor station for the Industrial Fuel Supply Company in 1919.[8]​ Fluor built the first “Buddha Tower” in 1921[7]​[8]​ in Signal Hill, California for the Industrial Fuel Supply Company.[10]​ The Buddha Tower was a water cooling tower design named for its resemblance to Buddhist temples.[7]​[8]​ The following year Fluor won a contract from Richfield Oil to build a gasoline plant that would produce 10,000 gallons per day.[11]​.

Against his father's wishes, Peter Fluor expanded the Fluor business outside of California in the 1930s.[8]​ He built refineries in Texas,[11]​ as well as pipelines and compressor stations from the Texas Panhandle to Indianapolis, Indiana for the Panhandle Eastern Pipeline Company.[8][10]​ Fluor built the Escondida in Chile, which is the largest copper mine in the world.[33]​ In 1942 Fluor built cooling towers and other facilities in Hanford, Washington for the Manhattan Project.[7][9]​ It built an expansion of Dhahran Air Force Base in Saudi Arabia for the United States Army during the 1950s[7]​ and accepted its first international project for ARAMCO in the Middle East.[11]​.

In the 1960s and 1970s Fluor built the first all-hydrogen refinery in Kuwait and the first all-offshore power plant for the Atlantic Richfield Company.[7]​ It also built pumps and ports[11]​ for the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System,[7]​ which crossed 800 miles from Northern Alaska to Valdez, Alaska.[10]​ and the world's largest offshore facility for natural gas in Java.[3]​ In 1976 ARAMCO was awarded a $5 billion project in Saudi Arabia to design facilities to capture sour gas, which is released from oil wells as waste for refining as fuel. That same year, construction of a partially completed copper and cobalt mine in Africa was canceled due to a war in the neighboring region of Angola and a decline in the price of copper. By 1979 Fluor had 13 projects to build power plants in the United States and had served more than half of the world's government oil companies.

Fluor has been working on the cleanup and decommissioning of atomic power plants in Ohio and Washington since the 1990s.[6]​ In 1992, Fluor won a contract with the United States Department of Energy for the cleanup of nuclear waste.[21]​ By 1996, Hanford was the most contaminated nuclear site in the United States and the United States Department of Energy was conducting a cleanup of the site that cost between $50 billion and $60 billion. Fluor Hanford Inc. replaced Westinghouse Hanford Co. on the project.[58][59] After a chemical explosion in 1997, 11 workers filed a lawsuit alleging they were being denied proper medical care and protective equipment. Fluor and the workers did not reach an agreement on whether the explosion caused any injuries.[60]​ In 2005 the U.S. Department of Energy fined Fluor for safety violations[59]​ and that same year a jury awarded $4.7 million in damages to 11 pipe fitters who claimed they were fired for complaining that a valve rated for 1,975 pounds per inch was being used instead of the valves. 2,235 that were needed.[61]​.

Fluor built the Aladdin Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas in 2001 for $1.4 billion.[6]​ In 2004 the company was awarded a $1.1 billion project with AMEC to help rebuild water, energy and civic infrastructure in Iraq after the Iraq War.[9][21]​ Fluor also built a railroad in Europe and missile sites in Arizona. The company provided disaster recovery services in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina. In 2010 Fluor provided workers to clean up oil tar on beaches in Florida and Alabama after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.[62]​.

According to the Fortune 500, Fluor is ranked 109th on its list and is ranked as the largest construction company.[44]​[45]​ With offices in 25 countries, many of Fluor's operations are located near natural resources, such as uranium in Canada, oil reserves in the Middle East, and mines in Australia. As of 2011, about 30 percent of Fluor's revenues were located in the United States.[46] The Fluor family owns a 3.5 percent stake in the company, while employees own six percent through its profit-sharing program.[11]

Fluor's Board of Directors has 12 “Independent Directors” and the Executive Chairman. The Independent Directors elect a Lead Independent Director every three years who works as a liaison to the CEO.[47]​ Each Independent Director participates in two or more committees: audit, executive, governance, and organization or compensation.[48]​ Directors are elected by shareholders and serve three-year terms.[47]​ Corporate officers, such as the CEO, are elected annually by a vote of the board.[49]​.

Fluor received an “A” score in the Transparency International anti-corruption study.[50]​ The company holds online and in-person training sessions for staff and operates an ethics hotline. Former President Alan Boeckmann helped create the Partnering Against Corruption Initiative (PACI), through which companies agree to a set of ethical principles.[51] Fluor staff receive anti-corruption training and operate an ethics hotline through virtual or in-person sessions. Fluor maintains a Code of Business Conduct and Ethics.[51] A Marketline SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) analysis indicated that Fluor's environmental work “enhances the company's brand image,” while often lengthy and unpredictable legal disputes “damage the company's brand image and will erode customer trust.”[46]​

According to the Los Angeles Times Fluor is a “major corporate citizen” that supports local charities and civic groups.[43] It started the Fluor Foundation for its charitable work in 1952 and Fluor Cares in 2010.[10] The company began the largest employer-endorsed professional learning program in California with a four-year program for designers in 1982.[52] Fluor operates a virtual university called Fluor University. for its employees.[53]​.

Fluor is a conglomerate that provides engineering, procurement, construction, maintenance and project management services through its subsidiaries.[46]​.

Furthermore, Fluor has also created pollution control products, such as the line of carbon capture products called Econamine.[46]​ According to Fluor's 2013 annual report, 57 percent of its work comes from the oil and gas industry.[54]​ Likewise, according to the company's website, Fluor's work includes

the design and construction of power plants, petrochemical factories, mining facilities, bridges and highways, government buildings and factories. The company also performs nuclear cleanup and other services.[55]​.

Likewise, Fluor provides project directors and administrators, teams of experts, and procurement staff for large projects, who are supported by centralized administrative staff. Fluor has trained more than 100,000 trade employees in Indonesia, the Philippines, Korea, Pakistan, Kuwait and other countries where the necessary job skills were not available locally.[11]​ Additionally, if necessary, Fluor can serve its clients by partnering to create a joint venture with other construction companies with local infrastructure expertise or industry-specific expertise.[46]​.

Fluor acquired shares in Genetech Inc. in 1981[56] and purchased a 10 percent ownership interest in a smelter and refinery facility in Gresik, Indonesia in 1995 for $550 million. In 1994, it invested $650 million in the Beacon Group Energy Investment fund to finance energy projects.[35] Fluor also has a majority ownership interest in NuScale LLC., which is creating a new type of 45-megawatt nuclear reactor known as a small modular reactor.[57]

Fluor's first projects were highway construction and grading but by the late 1920s it was known for the construction of public facilities, industrial complexes,[7]​ and its service to California's growing oil and gas industry.[4][6]​ It began building office and meter manufacturing facilities for the Southern California Gas Company in 1915, as well as a compressor station for the Industrial Fuel Supply Company in 1919.[8]​ Fluor built the first “Buddha Tower” in 1921[7]​[8]​ in Signal Hill, California for the Industrial Fuel Supply Company.[10]​ The Buddha Tower was a water cooling tower design named for its resemblance to Buddhist temples.[7]​[8]​ The following year Fluor won a contract from Richfield Oil to build a gasoline plant that would produce 10,000 gallons per day.[11]​.

Against his father's wishes, Peter Fluor expanded the Fluor business outside of California in the 1930s.[8]​ He built refineries in Texas,[11]​ as well as pipelines and compressor stations from the Texas Panhandle to Indianapolis, Indiana for the Panhandle Eastern Pipeline Company.[8][10]​ Fluor built the Escondida in Chile, which is the largest copper mine in the world.[33]​ In 1942 Fluor built cooling towers and other facilities in Hanford, Washington for the Manhattan Project.[7][9]​ It built an expansion of Dhahran Air Force Base in Saudi Arabia for the United States Army during the 1950s[7]​ and accepted its first international project for ARAMCO in the Middle East.[11]​.

In the 1960s and 1970s Fluor built the first all-hydrogen refinery in Kuwait and the first all-offshore power plant for the Atlantic Richfield Company.[7]​ It also built pumps and ports[11]​ for the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System,[7]​ which crossed 800 miles from Northern Alaska to Valdez, Alaska.[10]​ and the world's largest offshore facility for natural gas in Java.[3]​ In 1976 ARAMCO was awarded a $5 billion project in Saudi Arabia to design facilities to capture sour gas, which is released from oil wells as waste for refining as fuel. That same year, construction of a partially completed copper and cobalt mine in Africa was canceled due to a war in the neighboring region of Angola and a decline in the price of copper. By 1979 Fluor had 13 projects to build power plants in the United States and had served more than half of the world's government oil companies.

Fluor has been working on the cleanup and decommissioning of atomic power plants in Ohio and Washington since the 1990s.[6]​ In 1992, Fluor won a contract with the United States Department of Energy for the cleanup of nuclear waste.[21]​ By 1996, Hanford was the most contaminated nuclear site in the United States and the United States Department of Energy was conducting a cleanup of the site that cost between $50 billion and $60 billion. Fluor Hanford Inc. replaced Westinghouse Hanford Co. on the project.[58][59] After a chemical explosion in 1997, 11 workers filed a lawsuit alleging they were being denied proper medical care and protective equipment. Fluor and the workers did not reach an agreement on whether the explosion caused any injuries.[60]​ In 2005 the U.S. Department of Energy fined Fluor for safety violations[59]​ and that same year a jury awarded $4.7 million in damages to 11 pipe fitters who claimed they were fired for complaining that a valve rated for 1,975 pounds per inch was being used instead of the valves. 2,235 that were needed.[61]​.

Fluor built the Aladdin Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas in 2001 for $1.4 billion.[6]​ In 2004 the company was awarded a $1.1 billion project with AMEC to help rebuild water, energy and civic infrastructure in Iraq after the Iraq War.[9][21]​ Fluor also built a railroad in Europe and missile sites in Arizona. The company provided disaster recovery services in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina. In 2010 Fluor provided workers to clean up oil tar on beaches in Florida and Alabama after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.[62]​.