Talk:Bechtel/Archives/2019

Article updates
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) "
 * Please update employees to "55,000 (2017) "

Introduction
 * Please consider this revised introduction, which includes Bechtel's current HQ in Reston, Virginia, and its current ranking among the largest privately owned American companies
 * Bechtel Corporation ) is an engineering, procurement, construction, and project management company headquartered in Reston, Virginia. It is the largest construction company in the United States and the 11th-largest privately owned American company in 2018.

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, which also houses the company's global operational headquarters, as well as the headquarters of the Nuclear, Security & Environmental global business unit and the Americas offices of the Infrastructure global business unit. The company's Oil, Gas & Chemicals unit is based in the Houston office. The Washington office is home to the government affairs team, and maintains a Political Action Committee. "
 * "Outside of North America, the Infrastructure unit’s headquarters is located at the company’s London office. The Mining & Metals unit is based out of Santiago, Chile, and Brisbane. In 2013, the company established its global center of engineering excellence in Dubai focusing on rail and marine projects. It established innovation centers in Houston and London in 2015 and Santiago in 2018 to test new technology. "

Infrastructure
 * Please consider revising the following sentence to streamline the description of Bechtel's Infrastructure unit
 * "The Infrastructure unit handles transportation, power, and hydroelectric facilities. "
 * 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
 * "In 2018, Bechtel's work on Panda Power Funds' Hummel Station Power Plant in Pennsylvania 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
 * "The Oil, Gas & Chemicals unit designs and builds liquefied natural gas (LNG), oil, pipeline, petrochemicals, natural gas, and water treatment facilities.   "
 * 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. "
 * 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. Following completion of Train 1 in late 2017, Train 2 of the facility moved into production mid-2018.  "
 * 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. The initial cargo from the first completed train was delivered in 2016. In November, 2018, the unit has completed the first of three LNG trains on the Corpus Christi Liquefaction project in Texas. The Corpus Christi, project includes three LNG trains, three LNG storage tanks, and two berths.  In 2016, Bechtel completed roof raises on two tanks at a liquefaction plant in Corpus Christi, Texas, for Cheniere.
 * Please update the sentence on Bechtel's work managing a national laboratory and national security-related facilities
 * "As of 2019, Bechtel leads or is a member of a consortium that manage a national laboratory and a number of national security-related facilities in the U.S., including: the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the combined operations of the Y-12 National Security Complex and the Pantex Plant.  "
 * 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.  By 2019, the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant in Colorado had destroyed nearly 100,000 munitions. Bechtel completed the construction of the Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant in 2015. 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. 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. "

Management
 * Please add Bechtel's chief financial officer at the end of the first paragraph of this section
 * "Catherine Hunt Ryan is chief financial officer. "

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, and 7th on Fortune's list of the 25 Most Important Private Companies. The company has been named the top U.S. Contractor by revenue by Engineering News-Record for 20 years in a row and ranked 12th on the publication's Top 250 International Contractors list by revenue for 2018. "

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)


 * 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 G g ames 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 agreement agreed 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. 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.

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

The Oil, Gas & Chemicals unit designs and builds liquefied natural gas (LNG), oil, pipeline, petrochemicals, and natural gas facilities. Since the company's founding, it has built approximately 50000 miles of pipeline systems, more than 50 major oil and gas field developments, and completed over 380 major chemical and petrochemical projects. The unit also constructs and tests tanks for LNG storage. Bechtel is overseeing a third of the world’s LNG liquefaction capacity under construction.

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

Bechtel is responsible for the engineering, procurement and construction of five LNG trains for the Sabine Pass Liquefaction project in Louisiana. The initial cargo from the first completed train was delivered in 2016. Bechtel "substantially completed" its work for Cheniere Energy Partners LP on Train 4 of the Sabine Pass liquefaction project in Cameron Parish, Louisiana. 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. In 2016, Bechtel completed roof raises on two tanks at a liquefaction plant in Corpus Christi, Texas, for Cheniere.

In May 2013, the unit was awarded a contract for the front-end engineering design of the Pacific NorthWest LNG in Vancouver, BC. In March 2014, the unit was awarded a contract to construct facilities in Georgia for the Shah Deniz II gas field in Azerbaijan. 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. Also in 2015, the unit was awarded a contract to manage the engineering, procurement, and construction of 12 new natural-gas pipelines in Thailand.

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. It is also the lead contractor for a Shell petrochemical plant in Beaver County, Pennsylvania.

Bechtel's technology was licensed for facility upgrades at the Rijeka Refinery in Croatia in February 2014. 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. Also in 2016, it was awarded a contract to upgrade a refinery in Beaumont, Texas for ExxonMobil, using ExxonMobil's proprietary SCANfining technology.

In late 2017, the unit was selected to design and build Tellurian’s Driftwood LNG project, a proposed liquefied gas facility in Louisiana. 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.


 * 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 in 2018. 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.

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

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. It has also finished 42 major copper projects, 30 aluminum smelters, 15 major coal projects, and eight alumina refinery projects. In 2013, the unit completed construction of Saudi Arabia's first aluminum smelter in Ras Al-Khair, the Daunia coal mine in Queensland, Australia, and the expansion of the Kooragang Coal Terminal in Port Waratah in Australia, increasing capacity to 145 million tonnes per annum (Mtpa). In 2014, M&M completed the Caval Ridge coal mine in Queensland, and began operations at Escondida’s OLAP copper cathode project, which consisted of a new dynamic leaching pad and a mineral handling system. In 2015, the unit completed the Las Bambas copper concentrator in Peru for MMG, the Kitimat aluminum smelter in Canada for Rio Tinto Group., and the Escondida Organic Growth Project 1 (OGP1), the largest single-line copper concentrator ever built. 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. Bechtel began building the Al Taweelah alumina refinery (formerly Shaheen) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates for Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) in 2015.

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. 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. As of 2016, Bechtel is advancing the Amrun bauxite initiative for Rio Tinto in Australia, which announced project approval in November 2015.

Bechtel completed the engineering, procurement, and construction of a water system and desalination plant for the Escondida copper mine in Chile in 2018. 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.


 * 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)