Bechtel’s Oil, Gas & Chemicals unit set the pace for our company again in 2007, with projects worldwide that helped customers meet the steadily increasing need for clean, efficient energy.
Highlighting the stellar performance was the completion of the liquefied natural gas production facility in Equatorial Guinea, which began shipments in May, six months ahead of schedule. The latest in a string of major LNG plants we have built, it features a 350-meter suspension bridge that carries LNG from the plant down through the sloping rain forest to an ocean jetty.
We also are building a new LNG receiving terminal and regasification plant in Louisiana. The project includes a second phase that will expand the facility’s production capacity.
Last year we completed major work on a natural gas development/pipeline project in Algeria and passed the halfway point on a big gas field development off the East Coast of India. Work progressed on a new natural gas processing facility near Jubail, Saudi Arabia, and on a pair of gas development projects in Abu Dhabi. On Sakhalin Island in remote eastern Russia, we are extending and modifying an onshore processing facility for a major oil and gas development project.
Work is under way in Alberta, Canada, to increase capacity of an upgrading facility that converts bitumen extracted from oil sands into crude oil. In northwestern India, we are working on an expansion of the huge Jamnagar oil refinery complex.
Bechtel also is moving ahead on several important new projects, including a large liquefied natural gas processing plant in Angola, a 3,456-kilometer oil pipeline from Canada to the United States, and the expansion of a major oil refinery in Texas.
