Kiewit Offshore Services Ingleside Yard, Texas

This is a major oil rig construction yard, built on Corpus Christi Ship Bay in Ingleside in 2001 by Kiewitt Offshore. The yard is 400 acres, and has an unusually large crane, the Heavy Lifting Device, which is capable of lifting up to 13,000 tons. Kiewit is a large construction company that builds highways, bridges, skyscrapers, power plants, and other large-scale engineering projects. They have fabrication yards for offshore projects at a number of locations, including in Newfoundland. Their offshore division was formerly part of Aker-Kiewit, which occupied the nearby Gulf Marine yard at Ingleside, where they made the largest freestanding oil production platform in the World, the Bullwinkle Jacket.