AUSTRALIA—LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS

Bechtel has been selected as the primary engineering, procurement, and construction contractor for a new liquefied natural gas processing plant near Gladstone, Australia. The Queensland Curtis LNG project is an alliance between Queensland Gas Company Limited and BG Group plc. The new plant will produce between 3 and 4 million tonnes of LNG annually for export markets, with potential for expansion to up to 12 million tonnes. 

Canada—Aluminum Smelter 

Rio Tinto Alcan has awarded Bechtel a $200 million contract to provide engineering, procurement, and construction management for the modernization of an aluminum smelter in Kitimat, British Columbia. The project would increase the smelter’s annual production capacity by 125,000 tonnes a year to 400,000 tonnes. It would also reduce greenhouse gas emissions by more than 40 percent. The upgraded smelter would be among the largest in North America.

 

Canada - United States—oil pipeline

Construction has begun on a 2,148-mile (3,456–kilometer) pipeline that will transport up to 590,000 barrels per day of crude oil from the Alberta oil sands in Canada to refineries in the U.S. Midwest. TransCanada Keystone Pipeline chose Bechtel to provide engineering management, procurement, and construction management services for the pipeline, which will be owned by TransCanada and ConocoPhillips.

Western Australia—Alumina Refinery

BHP Billiton has selected Bechtel to provide engineering, procurement, and construction management for a $1.9 billion expansion of its Worsley Alumina refinery in Western Australia. The project, which will expand mining operations, add refinery capacity, and upgrade port facilities, will increase the refinery’s capacity for producing smelter-grade alumina from 3.5 million to 4.6 million tonnes per year Completion is expected in 2011. 

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

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