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Hello, EM at Bechtel again. As Bechtel's representative here, I have another proposal to update this article. I have a number of edits large and small, so I will list them below and provide citations to reliable sources. User:Dormskirk: Can you please review these suggestions and implement them if they are neutral and properly sourced, as you have with other requests for this article?

Infobox

  • Please update industry to "Engineering and construction"
  • Please update revenue to "$25.9 billion (2017)[1]"
  • Please update employees to "55,000 (2017)[1]"

Introduction

Increased business and visibility

  • Please consider updating the sentence "This was part of the overall effort to rebuild the infrastructure of Kuwait" to "This fire-suppression project was part of the overall effort to rebuild the infrastructure of Kuwait."

Locations and operational activities

  • Please consider the following updates to show the company is currently headquartered in Reston and clarify some of Bechtel's other offices
    • "The company is headquartered in Reston,[5] which also houses the company's global operational headquarters,[6] as well as the headquarters of the Nuclear, Security & Environmental global business unit and the Americas offices of the Infrastructure global business unit.[7][8] The company's Oil, Gas & Chemicals unit is based in the Houston office.[9] The Washington office is home to the government affairs team, and maintains a Political Action Committee.[10]"
    • "Outside of North America, the Infrastructure unit’s headquarters is located at the company’s London office.[11] The Mining & Metals unit is based out of Santiago, Chile, and Brisbane.[12] In 2013, the company established its global center of engineering excellence in Dubai focusing on rail and marine projects.[13][14] It established innovation centers in Houston and London in 2015 and Santiago in 2018 to test new technology.[15][16]"

Infrastructure

  • Please consider revising the following sentence to streamline the description of Bechtel's Infrastructure unit
  • Please update this sentence ("As of March 2018, Bechtel's work on Panda Power Funds' Hummel Station Power Plant in Pennsylvania was nearly complete") to show that the work was completed

Mining & Metals

  • Please consider spelling out tonnes per annum in the sentence "That same month, Rio Tinto announced that Kitimat had reached full production levels of 420,000 tpa, while Las Bambas achieved commercial production in July 2016". The preceding sentence uses Mtpa. Spelling out tonnes per annum in this sentence could help avoid confusion

Oil, Gas & Chemicals

  • Please consider adding water treatment facilities to the description of Oil, Gas & Chemicals
  • Please consider replacing the sentence "Bechtel is overseeing a third of the world’s LNG liquefaction capacity under construction" with:
    • "Bechtel has built a third of the world’s LNG liquefaction capacity.[25]"
  • Please update "The unit is also constructing the Wheatstone project, a two-train LNG plant that is one of Australia's largest energy resource efforts" to say the unit "also built" the Wheatstone project, and update its status
    • "The unit also built the Wheatstone project, a two-train LNG plant that is one of Australia's largest energy resource efforts.[26][27] Following completion of Train 1 in late 2017, Train 2 of the facility moved into production mid-2018.[28][29]"
  • Please update the status of the Sabine Pass project
    • "Bechtel has built five LNG production trains for Cheniere Energy Partners LP as the Sabine Pass liquefaction project in Cameron Parish, Louisiana.[30] The initial cargo from the first completed train was delivered in 2016.[31][32] In November, 2018, the unit has completed the first of three LNG trains on the Corpus Christi Liquefaction project in Texas.[33] The Corpus Christi, project includes three LNG trains, three LNG storage tanks, and two berths.[34][35] In 2016, Bechtel completed roof raises on two tanks at a liquefaction plant in Corpus Christi, Texas, for Cheniere.[36]
  • Please update the sentence on Bechtel's work managing a national laboratory and national security-related facilities
  • Please update the paragraph on chemical agent destruction
    • "The unit also manages U.S. Department of Defense contracts to dismantle and dispose of stored chemical weapons, including decades-old mustard and nerve gas from World War II.[40][41][42] By 2019, the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant in Colorado had destroyed nearly 100,000 munitions.[43] Bechtel completed the construction of the Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant in 2015.[44] Since May 2012, Bechtel has been part of a consortium completing the Chernobyl New Safe Confinement, a structure that will safely confine the damaged Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor Number 4.[45] Bechtel continues to oversee the operation. In November 2016, the team slid a massive containment arch to cover the damaged nuclear reactor and contain radioactive material.[36]"

Management

  • Please add Bechtel's chief financial officer at the end of the first paragraph of this section

Financials and rankings

  • Please consider updating rankings in Fortune and Engineering News-Record
    • "In 2017, Bechtel ranked eighth on Forbes' list of America's Largest Private Companies by revenue,[47] and 7th on Fortune's list of the 25 Most Important Private Companies.[48] The company has been named the top U.S. Contractor by revenue by Engineering News-Record for 20 years in a row[49][50] and ranked 12th on the publication's Top 250 International Contractors list by revenue for 2018.[51]"

Major projects

  • Please consider changing "aluminium" to "aluminum" in Jubail Industrial City, because this article generally uses American English

Thank you. EM at Bechtel (talk) 19:57, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

References

  1. ^ a b c "America's Largest Private Companies". Forbes. Retrieved December 18, 2018.
  2. ^ Sarnoff, Nancy (13 August 2013). "Bachtel decides to stay in Post Oak". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
  3. ^ Schwartz, Heidi (6 March 2015). "Bechtel Corporation moving from Maryland to Virginia". Business Facilities. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
  4. ^ "ENR 2017 Top 400 Contractors 1-100". Retrieved 19 March 2018.
  5. ^ Gregg, Aaron (June 7, 2018). "Bechtel to move headquarters to Reston after more than a century in San Francisco, bringing 150 jobs". The Washington Post. Retrieved December 18, 2018.
  6. ^ Anita Kumar and Fredrick Kunkle (November 7, 2011). "Bechtel to move some jobs from Maryland to Virginia". The Washington Post. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
  7. ^ Ed Waters Jr. (October 14, 2014). "Bechtel to move 'substantial' number of employees to Virginia". Frederick News-Post. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
  8. ^ "Bechtel Streamlines Organization, Announces Leadership Changes" (Press release). Bechtel. June 29, 2015. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
  9. ^ "Company Overview of Bechtel Oil, Gas and Chemicals, Inc". Bloomberg. Retrieved 9 April 2014.
  10. ^ "Bechtel Group". OpenSecrets.org. Center for Responsive Politics. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
  11. ^ Jay Clemens (October 6, 2014). "Toby Seay Named President of Bechtel's Newly Formed Infrastructure Business". ExecutiveBiz. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
  12. ^ Dey, Paromita (March 20, 2016). "Face to Face: David Welch, Bechtel". Construction Week Online. Retrieved December 18, 2018.
  13. ^ Cite error: The named reference Neuhof2013 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  14. ^ Himendra Mohan Kumar (May 13, 2013). "Bechtel eyes wider role for itself in region". Gulf News. Retrieved 9 April 2014.
  15. ^ "The Top 400". Engineering News-Record. May 25, 2015.
  16. ^ "Bechtel opens mining innovation center in Chile". Mining.com. December 20, 2018. Retrieved February 13, 2019.
  17. ^ "Bechtel reorganizes company into new nuclear, global business units". Power Engineering. October 7, 2014. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
  18. ^ "People". Engineering News-Record. June 25, 2008. Retrieved January 27, 2014.
  19. ^ "Bechtel completes 1.1GW power plant in Pennsylvania, US". Power Technology. July 19, 2018. Retrieved February 13, 2019.
  20. ^ Scicchitano, Eric (29 March 2018). "Panda powering-up Hummel Station plant". The Daily Item (Sunbury). Retrieved 14 May 2018.
  21. ^ "Annual Report". Bechtel. 2012. Retrieved 17 September 2013.
  22. ^ "World's 10 largest oil and gas contractors". Arabian Oil and Gas. June 29, 2009. Retrieved 9 June 2014.
  23. ^ Margarita Antidze (March 19, 2014). "BP-led consortium awards $841 million contracts for Shah Deniz project". Reuters. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
  24. ^ "Los Pelambres Copper Mine". Compelo.com. November 29, 2018. Retrieved February 13, 2019.
  25. ^ Blair Price (7 May 2015). "More contracts ahead: Bechtel". Energy News Bulletin. Retrieved 30 July 2015.
  26. ^ Reddall, Braden (July 30, 2009). "Bechtel to design Australia's Wheatstone 1st phase". Reuters. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
  27. ^ Almeida, Rob (December 24, 2013). "Dockwise Awarded Largest Contract Ever by Bechtel". gCaptain.
  28. ^ "Chevron starts second production unit at Wheatstone LNG in Australia". Reuters. June 15, 2018. Retrieved February 13, 2019.
  29. ^ "Wheatstone LNG's second train 90 pct done". LNG World News. 18 January 2018. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  30. ^ "Cheniere, Bechtel Sign Sabine Pass Contract (USA)". LNG World News. December 21, 2012. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
  31. ^ David Rowlands (26 February 2016). "First LNG commissioning cargo exported from Sabine Pass". LNG Industry. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
  32. ^ "Cheniere reaches near completion of Sabine Pass Train 4". Oil&Gas Journal. 13 October 2017. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
  33. ^ "Corpus Christi LNG Project, Texas". Compelo.com. December 12, 2018. Retrieved February 13, 2019.
  34. ^ Mason, Everdeen (December 9, 2013). "Cheniere Energy, Bechtel Agree to Two Contracts Worth $9.5 Billion". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
  35. ^ Callum O'Reilly (26 July 2016). "Corpus Christi Liquefaction June 2016 construction report". LNG Industry. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
  36. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference AnnualReport17 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  37. ^ Rocco, Matthew (9 August 2017). "Nuclear weapons: These companies manage America's stockpile". Fox Business. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
  38. ^ Shawn Tully (17 May 2016). "Meet the Private Company That Has Changed the Face of the World". Fortune. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  39. ^ "Y-12 contractor executive shares his philosophy". Knoxville News Sentinel. 6 July 2015. Retrieved 30 July 2015.
  40. ^ Cite error: The named reference Jones2010 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  41. ^ Cite error: The named reference Weisse2013 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  42. ^ Cite error: The named reference Brown2013 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  43. ^ Nichols, Greg (February 7, 2019). "Robots dismantle and neutralize 100,000 mustard agent chemical weapons". ZDNet. Retrieved February 13, 2019.
  44. ^ Ryan Maass (28 October 2015). "Bechtel and partners move toward destroying U.S. chemical weapons". United Press International. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  45. ^ "Enormous Chernobyl Confinement Shelter to be Completed in 2015". Nuclear Street News. May 25, 2012. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
  46. ^ Proctor, Catolyn M. (September 21, 2018). "Bechtel brings it — meet the new private company goliath in town". Washington Business Journal. Retrieved December 18, 2018.
  47. ^ "America's Largest Private Companies". Forbes. 2017. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
  48. ^ Kim Slowey (May 19, 2016). "Bechtel ranks 7th on Fortune list of 25 most important private companies". ConstructionDive. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
  49. ^ "ENR 2018 Top 400 Contractors 1-100". Engineering News-Record. May 2018. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
  50. ^ Slowey, Kim. "No surprise: Bechtel No. 1 on ENR 2018 Top 400 contractors list". Construction Dive. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
  51. ^ "ENR's 2018 Top 250 International Contractors". Engineering News-Record. August 2018. Retrieved December 18, 2018.
All done. Best wishes. Dormskirk (talk) 21:37, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
Thank you, Dormskirk, for your help with this! I read the article again and found some copy edits to help with grammar and readability. Can you please also review these and make copy edits you agree with?
I have marked this up so new content is in bold green. Material I am asking to delete is in bold red with strikethrough.
Founding and early years
  • Bechtel's business activities began in 1898 when cattle farmer Warren A. Bechtel moved from Peabody, Kansas, to the Oklahoma Territory to construct railroads with his own team of mules
  • That same year, he bought a his own steam shovel, becoming a pioneer of the new technology
WWII, overseas expansion and the nuclear age
  • Bechtel also worked on a pipeline from the Yukon to Alaska called Canol for the United States Department of War during this time period
Increased business and visibility
  • The 20-year project was critiqued for rising costs and an increasing scope of work, as the Big Dig became more complex than was originally estimated
  • Bechtel also managed design and construction of facilities for Olympic games: the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics, and the Winter Ggames in Nagano, Japan in 1998
  • Management of the project has been the subject of controversy including the Department of Energy's Inspector General reports and Government Accountability Office studies regarding rising costs, nuclear safety and quality, and whistleblower allegations
Infrastructure
  • Bechtel's Infrastructure unit is leading a consortium in the engineering, procurement, and construction of lines One and Two of the Riyadh, Saudi Arabia metro, which began construction in April 2014
  • The 778-megawatt natural gas-fired power plant supplies electricity to 778,000 homes in northern Virginia and the Washington, D.C., metro area
Mining & Metals
  • The Mining & Metals (M&M) unit works on projects related to the mining and production of materials such as aluminum, coal, copper, iron ore, alumina, and other metals and minerals
Nuclear, Security & Environmental
  • Bechtel and AECOM made an agreementagreed in 2016 to pay $125 million to settle claims by the U.S. Department of Justice that the companies used subpar work while building a nuclear waste treatment facility at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state, in addition to allegedly using public funds for lobbying
Major projects
  • Hoover Dam: At the time of construction, it was the world's biggest dam, and the largest public works project in the history of the U.S.
  • Under Jubail Industrial City: The city has been built from a master plan designed by Bechtel and encompasses infrastructure to support 19 primary industries, and produce oil and gas-based products including refined oil, petrochemicals, steel, glass, and aluminum
  • High Speed 1: High Speed 1 is considered the "UK's first truly high-speed rail line"
  • Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant: Vitrification plant to process radioactive waste at the Hanford site in Washington into a stable form that can be safely disposed of. Bechtel was selected by the United States Department of Energy to lead the team designing, constructing, and commissioning the plant, which is expected to be the largest of its kind. Work began in 2001, but the project had significant delays due to technical problems and design issues. As of 2016, operations for processing "low-activity" waste are scheduled to begin as early as 2022.
Thank you. EM at Bechtel (talk) 16:57, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi - I have made a few more changes where your intention was clear. However some of your changes seemed pretty trivial and I was not clear why we were being asked to make them. Dormskirk (talk) 00:24, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
Thank you, Dormskirk, for copy editing the article. This request is complete! EM at Bechtel (talk) 14:58, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

Criticism missing

Cochabamba water riots, for starters? Zezen (talk) 09:57, 21 July 2019 (UTC)

Oil, Gas & Chemicals

Hello again. I have proposed updates for Oil, Gas & Chemicals. I am Bechtel's representative here, so I will list my proposed changes below and provide a full text of my draft Oil, Gas & Chemicals in a collapse box to help with implementing. User:Dormskirk: Can you please review these suggestions and implement them if they are neutral and properly sourced, as you have with other requests for this article?

  • Please change "Oil Gas & Chemical" to "Oil, Gas & Chemicals" in the first sentence of this section: "The Oil Gas & Chemical unit designs and builds liquefied natural gas (LNG), oil, pipeline, petrochemicals, and natural gas facilities"
  • Please update the second paragraph to update on Bechtel's work in Australia
    • Correct the completion date for the first of 6 trains
    • Correct typo: The complex was named a 2016 Global Best Project, not "Projects"
    • Add the project's Construction Project of the Year recognition by S&P Global Platts
    • Update with Wheatstone progress
  • Please delete the following, as this never went forward:
    • "In June 2013, Bechtel was named the project manager of a megapetrochemical complex in Qatar at the Ras Laffan Industrial City"
  • Please add the following as the last paragraph of the section:
    • In late 2017, the unit was selected to design and build Tellurian’s Driftwood LNG project, a proposed liquefied gas facility in Louisiana.[1] In January 2018, the unit was awarded a front-end engineering design contract for Abu Dhabi National Oil Company’s planned offshore ultra-sour gas mega project located in the north western area of Abu Dhabi.[2][3][4]

Thank you. EM at Bechtel (talk) 16:00, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

Oil, Gas & Chemicals: full writeup

The Oil, Gas & Chemicals unit designs and builds liquefied natural gas (LNG), oil, pipeline, petrochemicals, and natural gas facilities.[5][6][7] Since the company's founding, it has built approximately 50,000 miles (80,000 km) of pipeline systems, more than 50 major oil and gas field developments, and completed over 380 major chemical and petrochemical projects.[8] The unit also constructs and tests tanks for LNG storage.[9] Bechtel is overseeing a third of the world’s LNG liquefaction capacity under construction.[10]

Between 2011 and 2016, the unit built three LNG plants on Curtis Island in Queensland, Australia.[11][12] It completed the first of six trains in December 2014.[13][14] The complex was named a 2016 Global Best Project by Engineering News-Record in the category of "Power/Industrial"[15] and a Construction Project of the Year by S&P Global Platts.[16] The unit is also constructing the Wheatstone project, a two-train LNG plant that is one of Australia's largest energy resource efforts.[17][18] As of 2018, the first train has been completed and the second train is 90 percent complete.[19]

Bechtel is responsible for the engineering, procurement and construction of five LNG trains for the Sabine Pass Liquefaction project in Louisiana.[20] The initial cargo from the first completed train was delivered in 2016.[21] Bechtel "substantially completed" its work for Cheniere Energy Partners LP on Train 4 of the Sabine Pass liquefaction project in Cameron Parish, Louisiana.[22] As of 2016, the unit has completed approximately 36% of an LNG project in Corpus Christi, Texas, which includes three LNG trains, three LNG storage tanks, and two berths.[23][24] In 2016, Bechtel completed roof raises on two tanks at a liquefaction plant in Corpus Christi, Texas, for Cheniere.[12]

In May 2013, the unit was awarded a contract for the front-end engineering design of the Pacific NorthWest LNG in Vancouver, BC.[25] In March 2014, the unit was awarded a contract to construct facilities in Georgia for the Shah Deniz II gas field in Azerbaijan.[7] In August 2015, Bechtel was contracted by Delfin LNG, to provide front-end engineering and design for a planned floating LNG vessel at Port Delfin off the coastline of Louisiana, which would be the first in the U.S.[26] Also in 2015, the unit was awarded a contract to manage the engineering, procurement, and construction of 12 new natural-gas pipelines in Thailand.[27]

The company was part of a consortium selected by PTT GC America in 2015 to provide front-end engineering and design for a new petrochemical complex in Belmont County, Ohio.[28] It is also the lead contractor for a Shell petrochemical plant in Beaver County, Pennsylvania.[29]

Bechtel's technology was licensed for facility upgrades at the Rijeka Refinery in Croatia in February 2014.[30] In 2016, the unit was contracted by the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation to design an upgrade to the coker unit at the Assiut refinery in Egypt using its ThruPlus technology.[31] Also in 2016, it was awarded a contract to upgrade a refinery in Beaumont, Texas for ExxonMobil, using ExxonMobil's proprietary SCANfining technology.[32]

In late 2017, the unit was selected to design and build Tellurian’s Driftwood LNG project, a proposed liquefied gas facility in Louisiana.[1] In January 2018, the unit was awarded a front-end engineering design contract for Abu Dhabi National Oil Company’s planned offshore ultra-sour gas mega project located in the north western area of Abu Dhabi.[2][3][4]

References

  1. ^ a b "Tellurian issues $100 million worth of stock to pay for LNG facility's engineering costs". The Advocate (Louisiana). 8 December 2017. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  2. ^ a b "FEED Contracts For Hail, Gasha And Dalma Ultra Sour Gas Offshore Project Awarded". Middleeastevents.com. 9 January 2018. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  3. ^ a b Ekaterina Kravtsova (10 January 2018). "UAE bets on alternative energy, local gas production". ICIS. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  4. ^ a b "Bechtel, TechnipFMC win ADNOC sour gas contracts". Offshore Engineer. 10 January 2018. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  5. ^ "Annual Report". Bechtel. 2012. Retrieved 17 September 2013.
  6. ^ "World's 10 largest oil and gas contractors". Arabian Oil and Gas. June 29, 2009. Retrieved 9 June 2014.
  7. ^ a b Margarita Antidze (March 19, 2014). "BP-led consortium awards $841 million contracts for Shah Deniz project". Reuters. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
  8. ^ "Annual Report". Bechtel. 2016. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
  9. ^ "Workers take a raft around LNG tank filled with water". Central Queensland News. April 11, 2014. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
  10. ^ Blair Price (7 May 2015). "More contracts ahead: Bechtel". Energy News Bulletin. Retrieved 30 July 2015.
  11. ^ Validakis, Vicky (June 3, 2013). "Bechtel hiring 500 workers for Curtis Island LNG". Australian Mining. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
  12. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference AnnualReport17 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  13. ^ "BG prepares first LNG shipment from QCLNG". The Australian Financial Review. 30 December 2014. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  14. ^ Matt Chambers (30 July 2016). "APLNG on track but analysts warn on oil price". The Australian. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
  15. ^ Scott Blair (6 July 2016). "ENR Announces 2016 Global Best Projects Winners". Engineering News-Record. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
  16. ^ Cooley, Declan (5 January 2017). "Gladstone 'mega-project' named the world's best". The Observer (Gladstone). Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  17. ^ Reddall, Braden (July 30, 2009). "Bechtel to design Australia's Wheatstone 1st phase". Reuters. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
  18. ^ Almeida, Rob (December 24, 2013). "Dockwise Awarded Largest Contract Ever by Bechtel". gCaptain. {{cite news}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  19. ^ "Wheatstone LNG's second train 90 pct done". LNG World News. 18 January 2018. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  20. ^ "Cheniere, Bechtel Sign Sabine Pass Contract (USA)". LNG World News. December 21, 2012. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
  21. ^ David Rowlands (26 February 2016). "First LNG commissioning cargo exported from Sabine Pass". LNG Industry. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
  22. ^ "Cheniere reaches near completion of Sabine Pass Train 4". Oil&Gas Journal. 13 October 2017. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
  23. ^ Mason, Everdeen (December 9, 2013). "Cheniere Energy, Bechtel Agree to Two Contracts Worth $9.5 Billion". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
  24. ^ Callum O'Reilly (26 July 2016). "Corpus Christi Liquefaction June 2016 construction report". LNG Industry. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
  25. ^ Shaun Thomas (May 21, 2013). "Pacific NorthWest LNG awards design and engineering contract". Northern View. Retrieved 9 April 2014.
  26. ^ "Bechtel, Delfin sign FEED contract". Offshore Engineer. 5 August 2015. Retrieved 14 September 2015.
  27. ^ Pam Russell (8 September 2015). "Bechtel Gets Contract for 12 Natural-Gas Pipelines in Thailand". Engineering News-Record. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
  28. ^ Jamison Cocklin (9 September 2015). "Consortium With Global Footprint to Lead Ohio Cracker Engineering". Natural Gas Intel. Retrieved 15 September 2015.
  29. ^ David Conti (23 July 2016). "Union leaders expect membership boost with Shell's Beaver County plant". Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
  30. ^ Stephan, Dominik (March 25, 2014). "Bechtel Supplies Coker Technology for Croatian Refinery". Process Worldwide. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
  31. ^ Robert Brelsford (20 May 2016). "Egyptian refiner lets contract for revamp project". Oil & Gas Journal. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
  32. ^ "BRIEF-Bechtel to upgrade Texas refinery for ExxonMobil". Reuters. 26 July 2016. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
Done. Again, well-presented. Best wishes. Dormskirk (talk) 17:48, 29 May 2018 (UTC)
Thank you again, User:Dormskirk! I greatly appreciate your help. I believe I have just a few more updates to make. EM at Bechtel (talk) 17:16, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

Mining & Metals

Hello again, as Bechtel's representative here, I have another proposed update for this article, this time for Mining & Metals. I will list them below and provide a full text in a collapse box to help with implementing. User:Dormskirk: Can you also review these additional suggestions and implement them if they are neutral and properly sourced?

  • Please change "it" to "M&M" at the beginning of this sentence: "It also completed a third berth for the BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) at Hay Point Coal Terminal in Queensland, Australia, which increased export capacity from the existing 44 Mtpa to 55 Mtpa."
  • Please lowercase "engineering, procurement, and construction management" in this sentence: "In April 2016, Aluminium Bahrain (Alba) announced that Bechtel had been appointed engineering, procurement, and construction management"
  • Please remove the third paragraph (about the Escondida desalination plant" and replace it with the follow at the end of the section:
    • Bechtel completed the engineering, procurement, and construction of a water system and desalination plant for the Escondida copper mine in Chile[1][2] in 2018.[3] The Bechtel-Techint joint venture team built a dual 112-mile-long pipeline to carry desalinated water from the Pacific Coast across the Atacama Desert to the Escondida copper mine approximately 10,000 feet above sea level in the Andes.[4]

Thank you. EM at Bechtel (talk) 15:52, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

Mining & Metals: full writeup

The Mining & Metals (M&M) unit works on projects related to the mining and production of materials such as aluminum, coal, copper, iron ore, alumina and other metals and minerals. The unit operates on six continents and has completed hundreds of major mining projects as well as more than 1,000 mining studies.[1][5] It has also finished 42 major copper projects, 30 aluminum smelters, 15 major coal projects, and eight alumina refinery projects.[6]

In 2013, the unit completed construction of Saudi Arabia's first aluminum smelter in Ras Al-Khair,[1] the Daunia coal mine in Queensland, Australia,[7] and the expansion of the Kooragang Coal Terminal in Port Waratah in Australia, increasing capacity to 145 million tonnes per annum (Mtpa).[8]

In 2014, M&M completed the Caval Ridge coal mine in Queensland,[9] and began operations at Escondida’s OLAP copper cathode project, which consisted of a new dynamic leaching pad and a mineral handling system.[10]

In 2015, the unit completed the Las Bambas copper concentrator in Peru for MMG,[11] the Kitimat aluminum smelter in Canada for Rio Tinto Group.,[12] and the Escondida Organic Growth Project 1 (OGP1), the largest single-line copper concentrator ever built.[1] M&M also completed a third berth for the BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) at Hay Point Coal Terminal in Queensland, Australia, which increased export capacity from the existing 44 Mtpa to 55 Mtpa.[13]

Bechtel began building the Al Taweelah alumina refinery (formerly Shaheen) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates for Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) in 2015.[14][15]

In April 2016, Aluminium Bahrain (Alba) announced that Bechtel had been appointed engineering, procurement, and construction management (EPCM) contractor for the company’s Line 6 Expansion Project. The initiative will make Alba the world’s largest single-site aluminum smelter upon completion, boosting production to 1.5 Mtpa.[16] That same month, Rio Tinto announced that Kitimat had reached full production levels of 420,000 tpa,[17] while Las Bambas achieved commercial production in July 2016.[18] As of 2016, Bechtel is advancing the Amrun bauxite initiative for Rio Tinto in Australia, which announced project approval in November 2015.[19]

Bechtel completed the engineering, procurement, and construction of a water system and desalination plant for the Escondida copper mine in Chile[1][2] in 2018.[3] The Bechtel-Techint joint venture team built a dual 112-mile-long pipeline to carry desalinated water from the Pacific Coast across the Atacama Desert to the Escondida copper mine approximately 10,000 feet above sea level in the Andes.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Moore, Paul (January 2014). "Building on foundations". International Mining. {{cite news}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  2. ^ a b "Agua y energía: Los proyectos críticos de BHP Billiton". Mineria Chilen. November 2016. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
  3. ^ a b "Escondida identifies a new desalination plant as the center of its water strategy 2018-2030". Mineria Chilena. 9 April 2018. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
  4. ^ a b "2017 Annual Report" (PDF). Bechtel. 2017. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
  5. ^ Sambidge, Andy (September 13, 2013). "Bechtel sets up mining, metals HQ for GCC growth". Arabian Business. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
  6. ^ "Annual Report". Bechtel. 2016. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
  7. ^ "Daunia". Mining Link. Retrieved 15 September 2015.
  8. ^ Lyubomirova Traykova, Zdravka (September 13, 2013). "Bechtel completes Port Waratah's Kooragang Coal Terminal expansion". SeeNews. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
  9. ^ Simon Walker (5 March 2015). "Las Bambas on track". Engineering and Mining Journal. Retrieved 8 September 2016.
  10. ^ "Oxide Leach Area Project". bnamericas.com. Business News Americas. Retrieved 8 September 2016.
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Done. Looks good. Dormskirk (talk) 22:44, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
Thank you, User:Dormskirk! I will let you know when I have additional updates for consideration. EM at Bechtel (talk) 19:52, 18 May 2018 (UTC)
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