Milestones Q2 1999

• Under the terms of a four-year construction management contract with the Virginia Department of Transportation, Bechtel and a joint-venture partner will undertake the first phase of a massive rebuilding of a Washington, D.C.-area highway intersection known locally as the Mixing Bowl. The project involves the construction of 30 ramps, 50 bridges, and 66 kilometers of roadway. With more than 375,000 vehicles a day, including 40,000 trucks, the Springfield intersection is the nation's second-busiest interchange.
• A consortium consisting of Bechtel and General Electric has been awarded a contract to build the Hsin Tao power project, a 628-megawatt combined-cycle facility approximately 50 kilometers southwest of Taipei, adjacent to a substation on the slopes of a tea farm. Taiwan has a critical need for low-cost, highly reliable sources of electrical power, due to its current low reserve margin and high growth rate.
  
• Bechtel has been selected to provide engineering, procurement, and construction management services for the $600 million Trans-Thailand-Malaysia gas pipeline project by joint-venture customers Petroleum Authority of Thailand and Petroliam Nasional Berhad. The project includes a 256-kilometer offshore pipeline in the Gulf of Thailand and 340 kilometers of onshore pipeline in Malaysia and Thailand. Completion and commissioning of the Trans-Thailand-Malaysia pipelines and other facilities are expected by the fourth quarter 2001.
• A group of leading Canadian energy, engineering, and construction firms, including Bechtel and Canadian affiliate Bantrel Inc., have joined in an alliance for the US$1.3 billion expansion of Suncor Energy Inc.'s Project Millennium oil sands development, near Fort McMurray, Alberta. The job will add 90,000 barrels per day to production at the Suncor plant, to reach a production target of 220,000 barrels per day in 2002. Full-scale operation of the facilities is slated for January 2002.
• Mexico's Comisión Federal de Electricidad has announced that InterGen Aztec Energy VIII B.V., an affiliate of Bechtel Enterprises-Shell joint venture InterGen, has been awarded a contract for the power project known as El Bajio. The 700-megawatt natural gas-fired, combined-cycle plant will be built in San Luis de la Paz in the state of Guanajuato. The project is scheduled to reach financial close in November 1999, and commercial operations are projected for November 2001.
• The U.S. Department of Energy has selected Bechtel as the new management and operations contractor for the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory. The facility is a 1,400-square-kilometer science-based and applied engineering complex located in eastern Idaho. The contract will run until September 30, 2004.
• The Japan Highways Public Corp. has selected a Bechtel joint venture to provide construction management services for the Yokkaichi Highway Junction. Bechtel is a 40 percent partner in the two-firm joint venture, led by Konoike Construction. The project includes 1.3 kilometers of highway and the substructure of bridges and ramps associated with the junction. Completion is expected in April 2002.
• The National Erectors Association has awarded Bechtel its highest honors for excellence. Bechtel earned the Thomas J. Reynolds Safety Award, taking first place among NEA members working more than 1 million job hours. Three Bechtel craftsworkers were recognized as well for innovation, receiving Craftsman of the Year, First Runner Up, and Honorable Mention awards.
• Dabhol Power Company has named affiliates of Bechtel, Enron, and General Electric as the primary construction team for the $1.9 billion second phase of India's Dabhol power project. The project closely follows completion of Dabhol's first phase, designed and built by Bechtel (Bechtel Briefs, December 1998). When complete in late 2001, the second-phase expansion will increase total power output at Dabhol to 2,450 megawatts, making it one of the world's largest private power plants.
• Steve Weyel has been named president of InterGen North America, the recently formed Bechtel Enterprises-Shell joint venture to develop power generation facilities in the United States and Canada. Weyel most recently served as senior vice president for Dynegy Marketing and Trade. He had previously been vice president of marketing and integrated energy for Dynegy's Electric Clearinghouse subsidiary. Earlier in his career, Weyel was founder and president of Resource Technology Corporation, and evaluator of global energy commodity reserves.
• The Construction Industry Institute has selected former Bechtel Vice Chairman Don Gunther to receive the Carroll Dunn Award for contributions to the engineering and construction industry, and for his support of the institute and its goals. The award was presented at a dinner in conjunction with the Annual CII Conference in August. Gunther, whose career spanned 37 years, oversaw efforts in petroleum and chemicals, mining and metals, environmental remediation, and technology consulting, as well as leading Bechtel business units and regions worldwide. Gunther retired from line duties in 1998.
• Senior Vice President John Duty has been named president of Bechtel's Petroleum & Chemical global industry unit. During his 30-year Bechtel career, Duty has served extensively in field engineering and project management for a variety of efforts in the petroleum industry. He has also led Bechtel's engineering function and figured prominently in the firm's continuous improvement initiatives, as well as managing regional offices. Most recently, Duty led the Atlantic LNG project in Trinidad.