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Locations and operational activities
Bechtel's major operational locations are in Brisbane, Calgary, Dubai, Frederick, Maryland, Houston, London, New Delhi, Reston, Virginia, San Francisco, Santiago, Shanghai, Taipei, and Washington, D.C.

The company's main headquarters are located at its San Francisco office, while the Reston office houses the company's global operational headquarters, as well as the headquarters of the Nuclear, Security & Environmental global business unit and the North American offices of the Infrastructure global business unit. The company's Oil, Gas & Chemicals unit is based in the Houston office. The Washington office maintains both a Political Action Committee and a lobbying program.

Outside of North America, the Infrastructure unit’s headquarters is located at the company’s London office. The Mining & Metals unit is headquartered at the company’s Brisbane office and also maintains operations in Santiago and Dubai. 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 to test new technology.

Bechtel works on global megaprojects through its four business units. The company frequently manages work from design through construction phases. Its corporate values include safety, quality, and ethics.

Infrastructure
The Infrastructure unit handles transportation, fossil and renewable power, transmission and communications. Infrastructure projects include highways and bridges, rail, ports, and aviation projects, as well as hydroelectric facilities. Bechtel has built more than 17,000 miles of roadway as well as 20 towns and cities globally. It has worked on 80 port and harbor projects, and 90 major airport projects.

Bechtel's Infrastructure unit is leading a consortium in the engineering, procurement and construction of the lines One and Two of the Riyadh, Saudi Arabia metro, which began construction in April 2014. In March 2014, it was announced Bechtel is part of a consortium to build a hydroelectric power plant for Manitoba Hydro in Manitoba, Canada. Additionally, in April 2015, it was announced that Bechtel is managing the completion of the Spadina subway extension for the Toronto Transit Commission. The unit is involved in several other ongoing projects as of August 2015, including building national infrastructure in Gabon and the continuous development of Jubail in Saudi Arabia. Bechtel is participating in the building of London's Crossrail, a $24 billion project that will connect commuter towns east and west of London and is intended to serve an estimated 200 million people a year upon completion. As of June 2015, the project is 65% complete.

The unit completed Phase I of an extension of the Dulles Corridor Metrorail in Northern Virginia and completed the Hamad International Airport in Doha, Qatar. It completed a 77.4 km four-lane motorway in Kosovo, which was finished a year ahead of schedule in November 2013, and was selected to build a new 37-mile motorway linking Kosovo's capital, Pristina, to Macedonia. The unit is also building projects for Google Fiber in several markets in the Southeastern U.S.

Power projects in 2014 include the construction of three natural gas-fired combined cycle facilities in Texas and Virginia for Panda Power Funds. Bechtel's renewable projects include the world's largest solar thermal project, the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in California, which began producing power in February 2014 and has the capacity to double solar thermal power production in the United States. The unit also completed the Catalina Solar photovoltaic generating facility and the construction of the California Valley Solar Ranch in 2013.

In August 2013, the unit completed the Hanna Region Transmission Development, a power transmission project in Canada, which included 1,200 new transmission towers and 219 miles of transmission lines.

Mining & Metals
The Mining & Metals unit works on projects related to the mining and production of materials such as aluminum, coal, copper, iron ore and other metals and minerals. The unit operates on six continents and has completed more than 2,500 major mining projects as well as over 1,000 mining studies.

Projects include constructing Saudi Arabia's first aluminum smelter in Ras Al-Khair in 2013 and completing the Daunia and Caval Ridge coal mines in Queensland, Australia.

In September 2013, the unit completed the expansion of the Kooragang Coal Terminal in Port Waratah in Australia, increasing capacity to 145 million tons. The unit won a contract to build a water system and desalination plant for the Escondida copper mine in Chile in December 2013, and was awarded a contract to build the Shaheen Alumina Refinery project in the United Arab Emirates in 2015.

Oil, Gas & Chemicals
The Oil Gas & Chemical unit designs and builds liquefied natural gas (LNG), oil, pipeline, petrochemicals, and natural gas facilities. The unit also constructs and tests tanks for LNG storage.

Bechtel is overseeing a third of the world’s LNG liquefaction capacity under construction. Since 2011 the unit has been building three LNG plants on Curtis Island in Queensland, Australia. The unit is also constructing the Wheatstone project, a two-train LNG plant that is one of Australia's largest energy resource efforts.

Bechtel is responsible for the engineering, procurement and construction of two LNG trains for the Sabine Pass Liquefaction project in Louisiana. In May 2013, the unit was awarded a contract for the front-end engineering design of the Pacific NorthWest LNG in Vancouver, BC. In December 2013, the unit was contracted to build three LNG trains, three LNG storage tanks, and two berths in Corpus Christi, Texas. 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.

In June 2013, Bechtel was named the project manager of a megapetrochemical complex in Qatar at the Ras Laffan Industrial City. Bechtel's technology was licensed for facility upgrades at the Rijeka Refinery in Croatia in February 2014. In March 2014, the unit was awarded a contract to construct facilities in Georgia for the Shah Deniz II gas field in Azerbaijan. 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.

Nuclear, Security, & Environmental
The Nuclear, Security, & Environmental unit handles the company’s government work and commercial nuclear businesses. The unit supports U.S. and international governmental organizations including the U.S. Departments of Defense and Energy.

As of July 2015, Bechtel leads a consortia that manages three national security-related facilities in the U.S. including the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the combined Y-12 National Security Complex/Pantex Plant. Bechtel won thirteen sustainability awards from the National Nuclear Security Administration in 2013 and five in 2014 for it work with these facilities.

Other government work includes the construction of the facilities to treat the liquid radioactive waste stored underground at DOE’s Hanford nuclear waste site in Washington for the Department of Energy. 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. In May 2012, a consortium including Bechtel began construction on a structure that will safely confine the damaged Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor Number 4. In June 2013 the unit completed design and construction on a U.S. Missile Defense Agency project at Fort Greely, Alaska, which included three missile fields and forty silos. In November 2013, Bechtel was awarded a US$7 billion contract to work on a nuclear propulsion project for the United States Navy. In 2014 the U.K. Ministry of Defence selected Bechtel to support the Royal Navy and Air Force on procurement and managed support services. Additionally, in 2015, Bechtel was contracted to provide testing and operations for the Arnold Air Force Base in Tennessee.

Ongoing commercial projects include work on the Tennessee Valley Authority's Watts Bar 2 nuclear reactor In June 2013, Bechtel won an engineering, procurement and construction contract to replace three steam generators at the Beaver Valley Nuclear Generating Station in Shippingport, Pennsylvania. Overall, Bechtel has worked on approximately 150 nuclear power plants as of June 2013.