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The Royal Dutch/Shell Group and Bechtel Enterprises Holdings, Inc. announced the completion of the agreement to expand the scope of their InterGen joint venture.

Bechtel National, Inc., and Washington Group International, Inc. today announced they have been awarded an environmental cleanup contract at Hanford by the U.S. Department of Energy.

Milestones taken from the Decembrt 2000 issue of Bechtel Briefs.

Bechtel Enterprises International Ltd., along with consortium partners Flughafen Frankfurt Main AG and Cosapi S.A., have been awarded a 30-year concession to develop and operate the Jorge Chavez International Airport in Lima, Peru.

Bechtel National, Inc., and SAIC today announced they have been awarded the management and operating contract for the civilian radioactive waste management program by the U.S. Department of Energy.

InterGen today announced that it has completed the debt financing for a 50 percent stake in the 840 MW Callide C power facility in Queensland, Australia.

InterGen, through its affiliate Rotterdam Energy Company Ltd., today applied to the Province of South Holland and to the Ministry of Transport and Public Works for licenses to build and operate an 800 MW gas-fired co-generation plant in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Alterra, a new breed of airport development company, providing the full range of project development, investment, ownership, and operations, is poised to make its mark on the fast-growing airport privatization market.

InterGen and its Turkish partner Enka today announced the loan signing of the Gebze, Adapazari, and Izmir natural gas-fired power facilities in Turkey.

Nexant, Inc., the energy technology and consulting company formed by Bechtel Capital Partners LLC earlier this year, announced today that it has successfully completed its first venture investment round, securing $15 million in capital from a blue chip group of investors.

Bechtel Telecommunications, Inc. and Nx Networks have agreed to jointly review opportunities to pursue Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and SoftSwitch infrastructure expansions on a global basis.

Bechtel Corporation announced that it has entered into a contract valued in excess of $1 billion to be the telecommunications network turnkey contractor for Western Integrated Networks, LLC ("WIN") for the installation of its broadband fiber-optic telecommunications networks.

The Royal Dutch/Shell Group and Bechtel Enterprises Holdings, Inc. announced today an agreement to expand the scope of their InterGen joint venture.

Milestones taken from the August 2000 issue of Bechtel Briefs.

To give service providers new options for providing broadband fixed wireless services to customers, Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO), the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet, today announced four new Broadband Fixed Wireless Ecosystem partners, including Bechtel.

InterGen announced today that Mexico´s Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) has awarded InterGen Aztec Energy X B.V., an affiliate of InterGen, a contract for the Rosarito power project.

Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott stood by at the breakthrough of the UK's first high-speed rail tunnel, a major milestone in the construction of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link.

With echoes of the cold war as a backdrop, Bechtel National, Inc. is facilitating an international effort to lend a helping hand to a struggling 67-year-old Ukrainian orphanage that is badly in need of assistance.

Metromedia Fiber Network, Inc. has awarded Bechtel Corporation a contract to provide program and construction management, and construction services, for MFN´s currently planned build of optical networks in metropolitan areas throughout North America and Europe.

Marcia B. Burkey has been elected managing director of Bechtel Enterprises Holdings, Inc. and named the company´s chief financial officer, effective immediately.

Internet collaboration technology from Cephren Inc. is enabling Bechtel to design and build online grocer Webvan´s (Nasdaq: WBVN) nationwide network of highly automated distribution centers.

Milestones taken from the April 2000 issue of Bechtel Briefs.

Incepta International—a Bechtel Enterprises affiliate—today announced that it has led a group of investors in providing the second round of funding for Star One AG, a new wireless broadband telecommunications company headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany.

San Jose-based Calpine Corporation and San Francisco-based Bechtel Enterprises announced that the California Energy Commission (CEC) has approved plans to construct the Delta Energy Center in Pittsburg, Calif.

Bechtel announced today the formation of an independent energy technology and consulting company, Nexant LLC.

iMotors.com, the Internet´s first e-commerce used car retailer, announced today that it has entered into an exclusive, $300 million, multi-year program with Bechtel to design and construct up to 30 of its state-of-the-art Vehicle Certification Centers (VCCs) worldwide.