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Iraq Infrastructure Reconstruction: Project Update
With 87 personnel in offices and camps in Baghdad, Umm Qasr, Basrah, and Al Hillah, Bechtel is progressing with its work on the Iraq reconstruction project. Port of Umm Qasr―Dredging, removal of unexploded ordnance and sunken vessels, and power repair work continue to progress at the port of Umm Qasr. The goal is to accommodate grain-bearing ships by mid-July. In the next two weeks, seven World Food Program vessels with approximately 103,000 tonnes (114,000 tons) of rice and bagged wheat flour are scheduled to arrive at the port.
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Bechtel National, Inc. to Host its First Conference for Iraqi Contractors and Suppliers
Bechtel National, Inc. will host in Baghdad Wednesday its first conference for Iraqi contractors and suppliers to inform them of its role in USAID's Iraq Infrastructure Reconstruction Program and how they might participate. USAID Administrator Andrew Natsios will deliver closing remarks. The June 18 event takes place at the Iraq Forum (Convention Center). Attendees should arrive at 9:00 a.m. in advance of a 10:30 a.m. start to the program. The sessions should continue until about 3:00 that afternoon. No fee will be charged for attendance, and no advance registration is required.
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Bechtel and Parsons Joint Venture Selected by Dod to Destroy Chemical Weapons
Bechtel Parsons Blue Grass has been selected by the Defense Department's Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives program to design, build, operate and close a plant to destroy the chemical weapons stockpile stored at the Blue Grass Army Depot in Kentucky.
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Progress on Iraq Infrastructure Work
Bechtel has been authorized to begin assessing damage to 4,000 primary and secondary schools as well as clinics in key cities throughout Iraq. Bechtel-led teams will evaluate which rehabilitation work will swiftly yield the greatest benefit for the most Iraqis—preliminarily estimated at about 1,400 facilities. Iraqi engineers, contractors, and suppliers will perform the work. This portion of the Iraq reconstruction project also includes repair to police and fire stations in Baghdad.
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Bechtel Quebec to Play Major Role in Alcoa's Icelandic Aluminum Project
Bechtel announced today that its Montreal office will handle the bulk of engineering, procurement, and project management in the construction of a US$1 billion smelter (Fjardaal) in eastern Iceland for Alcoa.
The decision to locate much of the work in Montreal—where Bechtel has its global Center of Aluminum Excellence and its North American mining and metals headquarters—reflects the company's commitment to Quebec and underscores the province's importance to the world aluminum industry. The aluminum center is expected to employ some 250 engineers and specialists for the Iceland project. -
A Reply to Protesters' Allegations Against Bechtel
In April, Bechtel was awarded a contract by the U.S. Agency for International Development to help the Iraqi people rebuild their country. Protest leaders have mobilized opposition to Bechtel on the basis of false claims and innuendo. Here are claims from their leaflets―and the facts.
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Bechtel Signs First Iraq Firm to Construction Subcontract
Bechtel today signed its first subcontract with an Iraqi company under its prime contract supporting USAID's Iraq Infrastructure Reconstruction Program. The scope of work of the subcontract is to design and construct a bridge bypass of about 1.5 km in length for a critical highway in the western part of the country.Al-Bunnia Trading Company, a 93-year-old Baghdad-based construction firm, will work with Bechtel supervisors to provide field engineering services and construct the bypass on Highway 10 near the war-damaged Al Mat Bridge, which is located about 300 km west of Baghdad and 180 km from the Jordanian border.
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Ties to Bin Laden Family Misreported
Recent articles in The New Yorker magazine and on the CNN/Money Magazine Web site purport to have uncovered ties between the bin Laden family and Bechtel via the Fremont Group. The New Yorker goes so far as to suggest that revenue from Bechtel´s work on civilian infrastructure in Iraq supports the terrorist activities of Osama bin Laden. The assertion is reckless and false.
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Bechtel/Sinopec Engineering/Foster Wheeler Consortium Implements $4.3 Billion Petrochemicals Project
Foster Wheeler Ltd. (NYSE: FWC) announced today that BSF, a consortium of Bechtel Petroleum & Chemical of the United States, Sinopec Engineering Inc. (SEI) of China, and Foster Wheeler Energy Limited of the UK, has been appointed as the project management contractor by CNOOC and Shell Petrochemicals Company Ltd. (CSPC) for the implementation phase of a world-scale, $4.3 billion petrochemicals complex in China’s Guangdong province.
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Bechtel National, Inc. to Provide Information on Subcontracting and Purchasing for Iraq
Beginning the week of May 19, contractors and suppliers will be able to learn about Bechtel National, Inc.’s subcontracting and purchasing tendering processes and requirements for its work on the USAID Iraq Infrastructure Reconstruction Program. The company will provide this information on this Web site, and at regional conferences in Washington, D.C., on May 21, London on May 23, and Kuwait City on May 28.
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Bechtel Finalizes Details for Kuwait
Bechtel National, Inc. has finalized details of the contractor-supplier conference planned for Kuwait. That conference will take place Wednesday, May 28th, from 9 a.m. until 12 p.m. at the Sheraton Kuwait in Kuwait City. No fee will be charged for attending this conference.
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Contract Awarded to Cogema
Bechtel SAIC Company, LLCL today announced it is awarding a contract valued at $29.7 million to COGEMA, Inc.