Fluor, one of the world's largest international engineering,procurement, construction, maintenance, operations and consultingcompanies, announced last week that, subject to shareholderapproval on Nov. 30, the company will separate into two publiclytraded entities.

It's coal production subsidiary, A.T. Massey Coal, will berenamed Massey Energy Company, and existing Fluor shares willcontinue to be traded temporarily under the new "MEE WI" symbol onthe NYSE until shareholders approve. Then the shares will be tradedas "MEE". Shares representing the remainder of Fluor's operationswill be temporarily traded under the new "FLR WI" symbol on theexchange beginning Dec. 1.Assuming shareholder approval, shares ofthe "new" Fluor will be deliverable on December 21 and listed onthe exchange as "FLR".

Shareholders of record of the company's existing stock on Nov.30 will receive one share of "new" Fluor stock for each share ofexisting stock they own and will retain their shares of existingstock traded asMEE. All shares will be traded on a "regular waydelivery" basis.