libya—natural gas and fuel oil power plant

Bechtel is providing engineering, construction, and project management services for a 1,400-megawatt electric generating station in Libya—its first project in that country since the 1970s. The Al Khalij project, some 450 kilometers east of Tripoli on the Mediterranean coast, will include fuel oil storage tanks and and multi-effect desalination units.The project, for General Electricity Company of Lybia, is scheduled for completion in September 2012. 

california—solar thermal power plant

Bechtel is providing engineering, procurement, and construction services to BrightSource Energy for a 440-megawatt solar power facility in California's Mojave Desert. The facility, comprising three separate solar thermal power plants, will generate enough electricity to run 140,000 homes and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by more than 450,000 tons (408,000 metric tons) per year—the equivalent of taking more than 75,000 cars off the road.

 

russia—combined-cycle power plant

Bechtel is undertaking its first power project in Russia—a 411-megawatt combined-cycle plant in the Perm region about 1,300 kilometers east of Moscow—one of the coldest areas of the country. Working with longtime partner Enka, Bechtel will provide design and procurement services for the Yajva State District Power Plant. The customer is Russian power provider OGK-4 Open Joint Stock Company.

 

 

OHIO, USA—COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT

American Municipal Power-Ohio has named Bechtel to provide engineering, procurment, and construction for a 1,000-megawatt coal-fired power plant in Meigs County, Ohio. The $3.25 billion facility will use state-of-the-art emission control equipment, making it one of the cleanest plants of its type in the country. The plant will supply power to municipal electric systems in Ohio, Michigan, Virginia, and West Virginina.

 

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.

 

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