19 December 2002
Bechtel National, Inc. (BNI), today announced the appointment of John T. Mitchell as President and General Manager of Bechtel SAIC, the Yucca Mountain management and operations contractor for the Department of Energy's Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management Program.
20 November 2002
First Project Financing to close in the Liberalizing Continental European Electricity Markets
InterGen announced the financial close of the Rijnmond Energie Center, a highly efficient 790-megawatt (MW) natural gas-fired, combined heat and power facility located in an industrial zone of Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Rijnmond will be the first independent power plant in northwest Europe since the 1996 European Union Electricity Directive.
Intergen Announces Commercial Operations of Gebze Power Facility in Turkey
Intergen Announces Commercial Operations of Gebze Power Facility in Turkey
30 October 2002
InterGen announced that Gebze, a 1554-megawatt (MW), natural gas-fired, combined-cycle power facility, has achieved commercial operations and is dispatching into the Turkish power grid. The Gebze facility and the adjacent 777 MW Adapazari facility, both established by an InterGen-ENKA Consortium, represent the very first Build-Own-Operate (BOO) privatization projects in Turkey.
Concocophillips and Bechtel Renew Worldwide LNG Alliance
Concocophillips and Bechtel Renew Worldwide LNG Alliance
14 October 2002
ConocoPhillips and Bechtel Corp. have agreed to renew their collaborative pursuit of liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects worldwide. The collaboration will build upon the recent success of ConocoPhillips as a major owner and participant in the worldwide LNG industry, and Bechtel's recent awards in the engineering and construction of major projects in Trinidad and Tobago as well as Egypt.
02 October 2002
Bechtel Power Corporation today announced that it has signed an agreement with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to provide engineering and technical services for the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant, Unit 1 Restart, effective October 1, 2002.
25 September 2002
U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command has awarded a Bechtel-Lockheed Martin company, Kwajalein Range Services, LLC, a contract for Logistics Support and Integrated Range Engineering Support Services at Kwajalein Atoll/Reagan Test Site.Located in the Republic of Marshall Islands, the U. S. Army Kwajalein Atoll/Reagan Test Site is designed primarily for ballistic missile defense testing and space surveillance operations. The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command is the Army's proponent for Space and Missile Defense and is responsible for the operation of the Reagan Test Site and other facilities located at Kwajalein Atoll.
29 August 2002
Bechtel Corporation's new Aluminum Center of Excellence in Montreal will play a key role in a recently announced project to expand Aluminum Bahrain's smelting complex, one of the world's largest. The effort will increase Alba's production capacity by 60 percent.
25 June 2002
Geir Ramleth has rejoined Bechtel Corporation as chief information officer, managing the engineering and construction company's Information Systems and Technology organization. He succeeds Hank Leingang, who joined Bechtel in the newly created position of CIO in 1997 and is currently consulting for the company.
14 June 2002
Executives from Bechtel and BPR today announced a four-point plan for expanding and sustaining the presence of their companies in Quebec, including formation of a joint engineering firm.
10 June 2002
Mexico’s President Vicente Fox Quesada officially inaugurated Bajío, a 600 megawatt, natural gas-fired power facility, during a visit to the plant on Friday, June 7. The plant is owned by the Energía Azteca, a Mexican project company jointly owned by InterGen and American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP). The build, own and operate facility is in commercial operation near the municipality of San Luis de la Paz in the state of Guanajuato, approximately 160 miles from Mexico City.