Papua New Guinea—LNG Plant
Bechtel has been chosen to provide front-end engineering and engineering, procurement, and construction work for a planned liquefied natural gas processing facility in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. Like other recent Bechtel LNG projects, this one will use the Optimized Cascade process technology developed by ConocoPhllips. The project is contingent on government agreements and confirmation of natural gas reserves.
ANGola—LNG plant
Construction is under way on a 5.2 million-tonne-per-year liquefied natural gas processing plant near the town of Soyo in Angola on Africa's West Coast. The project, which will use ConocoPhillips' Optimized Cascade process technology, is the second LNG plant for Bechtel in Africa. The first one, on Bioko Island in Equatorial Guinea, began operating in 2007. Open positions
TEXAS—Refinery Expansion
Work has begun work on an expansion project that will double the size of the Motiva Enterprises LLC oil refinery in Port Arthur, Texas. A joint venture of Bechtel and Jacobs Engineering Group is serving as primary contractor for engineering, procurement, and construction. When complete in 2010, Motiva will have a capacity of 600,000 barrels per day, making it the largest oil refinery in the United States and one of the largest in the world. Open positions
Tennessee—Nuclear Plant Completion
Bechtel is leading engineering, procurement, and construction work on a $2.5 billion project to complete Unit 2 at Watts Bar Nuclear Plant in Spring City, Tennessee. The plant was mothballed in 1985 when it was about two-thirds complete. When it begins operation in 2012, Watts Bar Unit 2 will add approximately 1,200 megawatts of power to the Tennessee Valley Authority system, enough to serve 650,000 homes. Open positions
Illinois—Coal-Fired Power Plant
Work has begun on a 1,600-megawatt supercritical coal-fired power plant in southern Illinois. Under a $2.9 billion contract with a group led by Peabody Energy, Bechtel is providing engineering, procurement, construction, and management services for the new Prairie State Energy Campus. One of the biggest private capital projects ever in Illinois, Prairie State will feature advanced pollution controls to minimize particulate and greenhouse gas emissions. Open positions
