Milestones

Awards · Announcements · Appointments

BIOWEAPONS PREVENTION FACILITY

GEORGIA Bechtel National has completed the new Epidemiological Monitoring Station and Repository for Infectious Pathogens in Tbilisi, Georgia, under the U.S. Department of Defense’s Cooperative Threat Reduction program in the states of the former Soviet Union. The structure will be part of a network to provide diagnostic capability, biological and epidemiological research, and secure storage of infectious pathogens.

LNG TERMINAL CONTRACT

USA Bechtel has been awarded a $647 million contract for the Sabine Pass liquefied natural gas terminal in Louisiana. The terminal will consist of three storage tanks and two unloading docks capable of handling the largest tanker ships currently planned. Construction will begin in first quarter 2005, with completion scheduled for early 2008. The customer is a wholly owned limited partnership of Cheniere Energy.


CARBON PLANT PROJECT

NORWAY Bechtel has been awarded a contract for engineering, procurement, and construction management of a $300 million carbon anode production facility jointly owned by Alcoa Inc. and Elkem Aluminium ANS. The plant—adjacent to the owners’ existing aluminum smelter in Mosjøen, Norway—will produce anodes for both the Mosjøen smelter and Alcoa’s Fjarðaál smelter in Iceland, which Bechtel is building under a separate contract. The new project is scheduled for completion in April 2007.

SAFETY FIRST

STELLAR SAFETY RECORDS
In the USA, the East Side Access transit project in New York City reached 2.3 million hours without a lost-time accident. Other notable safety achievements included 1.3 million accident-free hours at the Waste Treatment Plant project in Washington, 1.5 million hours at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station project in California, 1.1 million hours at the Croatian Motorway project, 6.2 million hours at the Atlantic LNG Train 4 project in Trinidad & Tobago, 1.5 million hours at the Comalco Alumina Refinery in Australia, and 5.9 million hours at the CSPC Nanhai Petrochemicals project in China

AFFILIATED COMPANIES
Senimdi Kurylsis, a Kazakh company owned by a Bechtel joint venture with Turkish partner Enka, has completed more than 10 million job hours without a lost-time accident on a series of Bechtel-Enka oil and gas projects in Kazakhstan. Bantrel, Inc., Bechtel’s Canadian affiliate, recently completed 20 million hours without a lost-time accident.

GAS PLANT EXPANSION

UAE Abu Dhabi Gas Industries (GASCO), the onshore gas-processing subsidiary of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), has awarded Bechtel a $1.5 billion contract to build and commission OGD III, the expansion of a giant gas plant approximately 130 kilometers southwest of Abu Dhabi. The 40-month project is scheduled for completion in April 2008.

OIL RECOVERY PROJECT

ALGERIA Sonahess, a joint venture of Sonatrach and Amerada Hess, has awarded Bechtel a $420 million contract for a project to increase the production of a mature oil field. The Sahara Desert project, about 870 kilometers southeast of Algiers, consists of two pipelines, an 88-megawatt gas turbine power plant, compressors, pumps, and other facilities. Work is scheduled for completion in May 2007.

BEST COMPANY RECOGNITION

USA Global Finance magazine has named Bechtel to its list of the “World’s Best Companies” for the fourth consecutive year. Bechtel was named top company in the construction and engineering category, based on revenue and profit growth, market capitalization, corporate responsibility and accountability, innovation, and market-building successes.

Nuclear Society Appointment

USA Bechtel Nuclear President Jim Reinsch will serve as president of the American Nuclear Society from June 2005 until June 2006. He currently is vice president of the nonprofit scientific and educational organization, which has 10,500 members worldwide and is marking its 50th anniversary this year.

MANAGEMENT MOVES

John MacDonald, formerly president of Bechtel Infrastructure, has been appointed executive vice president of Bechtel’s Oil, Gas & Chemicals global business unit. Carl Rau takes over as president of Bechtel Infrastructure, and Cliff Mumm succeeds Rau as executive vice president of Bechtel Systems and Infrastructure, Inc. Bill Elkins takes over Mumm’s role as program director for Bechtel’s projects in Iraq. Chuck Redman, formerly corporate manager of Human Resources, now leads strategy and business development for Bechtel’s Civil global business unit and serves as president of Bechtel’s Europe, Africa, Middle East, and Southwest Asia region. Ron Naventi has relocated to Moscow to become Bechtel’s senior representative for the Commonwealth of Independent States, the non-Baltic State republics of the former Soviet Union. Mary Moreton, corporate manager of Six Sigma, has assumed the additional role of corporate manager of Human Resources. Tim Statton, president of Bechtel’s Telecommunications global business unit, has joined the board of the United States Telecommunications Training Institute.

CLOSER

Hope for Horses
Texans, by tradition, revere horses. So it’s no surprise that the state is home to a nonprofit ranch that offers sanctuary to horses rescued from abuse and neglect. Habitat for Horses combines affection and veterinary care for its wards with education on their humane treatment, horsemanship training, and an adoption program for rehabilitated animals.

Employees from Bechtel’s Houston office recently devoted a month of weekends to help improve the organization’s facilities near Hitchcock, Texas. They brought their toolboxes and talents to the site, and helped other volunteers quickly build a feed and tack room—long needed on a ranch that’s home to 50 horses. They also installed lighting throughout the ranch, from pastures to paddocks.

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