At three U.S. military bases, Bechtel has been working to destroy aging stockpiles of chemical weapons.

Early in 2006, Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland became the first continental U.S. military site to eliminate its stockpile of chemical weapons. It was an important milestone for the country, and also for Bechtel, which has led the effort at Aberdeen and is involved in similar chemical demilitarization projects at two other U.S. military sites—Colorado’s U.S. Army Pueblo Chemical Depot and the Blue Grass Army Depot in Richmond, Kentucky.

A look at projects that illustrate the meaning of "global reach."

Since its beginnings as a railroad-grading operation in the Oklahoma Territory at the end of the 19th century, Bechtel has grown to become a world leader in engineering and construction.

On the remote eastern coast of Russia, a gas development project is on track despite some of the most severe weather on Earth.

Getting to the Sakhalin II site would test even the most good-natured traveler. The first leg of the journey is in Guinness World Records as the longest internal flight in the world. Assuming the airports are open—and that’s no certainty in a region with 40-below temperatures, snowstorms, typhoons, and cyclones—visitors endure a 9-hour flight from Moscow to the island’s capital, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.

For more than half a century, Bechtel has been working on major projects in Australia.

When Bechtel came to Australia in 1954, the island country mostly kept to itself. A still-developing nation known primarily for wool, wheat, coal, and iron ore, Australia’s vast natural resources remained largely a promise to be realized.