A suspension bridge through the jungle carries LNG to waiting tankers in Equatorial Guinea.

At Bechtel, we pride ourselves in overcoming extraordinary challenges on projects that take us to the far corners of the Earth. As you’ll see here, it’s not just a lot of talk.

Just since 2000, we’ve completed major construction projects in places like Equatorial Guinea, Iceland, the Peruvian Andes, and Sakhalin Island at the eastern tip of Russia.

Just to reach these destinations takes creative planning. Want to fly from our headquarters in San Francisco to Equatorial Guinea’s Bioko Island, where we constructed a liquefied natural gas processing facility? If you’re willing to make two stops along the way and travel for more than 21 hours, you could get there for less than $3,000. A one-stop trip (18 hours and change) will cost at least $5,000. And that’s for a coach seat.

Sakhalin Island? The first leg of the journey there from Moscow is in Guinness World Records as the longest internal flight in the world. Assuming the airports are open—and that’s no certainty given the potential for bad weather—visitors endure a nine-hour flight from Moscow to the island’s capital, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. They then spend 14 hours on a train and three hours bumping along in a four-wheel-drive vehicle before finally stepping onto the project site.