Warren Bechtel founded Bechtel Corporation in 1898 when he started a sizable contracting business that specialized in railroad and highway building.
In 1925 Warren’s sons Warren Jr., Stephen, and Ken joined the business, incorporating as W.A. Bechtel Company.
In 1928 when the U.S. Congress mandated the construction of a hydroelectric dam on the Colorado River, named the Hoover Dam in honor of president Herbert Hoover, W.A. Bechtel Company joined up with five competitors to form the Six Companies Corporation. The companies’ combined strength gave them the best bid, and Six Companies was awarded the contract in 1931.
After the Hoover Dam was completed two years ahead of schedule, Bechtel’s reputation soared. Warren’s son Warren Jr. was now running the company, and he diversified the company to engineering and oil contracts.
During WWII Bechtel built a shipyard for the US government and participated in the CANOL pipeline project, the company’s first pipeline and one for which they received criticism and eventually a federal investigation for mismanagement.
Through the 1940’s and 1950’s Bechtel continued to expand its pipeline business.
In the 1960’s and 1970’s the company expanded its energy engineering activities. At the same time Bechtel launched its development, finance, and investment arm, Bechtel Enterprise Holdings, Inc.
Today Bechtel has had involvement in a large number of high profile construction and engineering projects, numerous power projects such as refineries and nuclear power plants, and transportation projects. Notable projects include the BART system, the King Fahd International airport in Saudi Arabia, which is the largest airport in the world, and the rebuilding of civil infrastructure in Iraq through USAID.
Bechtel continues to be a family business and is run by fourth-generation CEO, Riley Bechtel.
Bechtel is #5 on the Forbes list of America’s Largest Private Companies. The company has 52,700 employees and had $27.90 billion in revenue in 2011.
Bechtel Corporation
Warren Bechtel founded Bechtel Corporation in 1898 when he started a sizable contracting business that specialized in railroad and highway building.
In 1925 Warren’s sons Warren Jr., Stephen, and Ken joined the business, incorporating as W.A. Bechtel Company.
In 1928 when the U.S. Congress mandated the construction of a hydroelectric dam on the Colorado River, named the Hoover Dam in honor of president Herbert Hoover, W.A. Bechtel Company joined up with five competitors to form the Six Companies Corporation. The companies’ combined strength gave them the best bid, and Six Companies was awarded the contract in 1931.
History
After the Hoover Dam was completed two years ahead of schedule, Bechtel’s reputation soared. Warren’s son Warren Jr. was now running the company, and he diversified the company to engineering and oil contracts.
During WWII Bechtel built a shipyard for the US government and participated in the CANOL pipeline project, the company’s first pipeline and one for which they received criticism and eventually a federal investigation for mismanagement.
Through the 1940’s and 1950’s Bechtel continued to expand its pipeline business.
In the 1960’s and 1970’s the company expanded its energy engineering activities. At the same time Bechtel launched its development, finance, and investment arm, Bechtel Enterprise Holdings, Inc.
Today Bechtel has had involvement in a large number of high profile construction and engineering projects, numerous power projects such as refineries and nuclear power plants, and transportation projects. Notable projects include the BART system, the King Fahd International airport in Saudi Arabia, which is the largest airport in the world, and the rebuilding of civil infrastructure in Iraq through USAID.
Bechtel continues to be a family business and is run by fourth-generation CEO, Riley Bechtel.
Bechtel is #5 on the Forbes list of America’s Largest Private Companies. The company has 52,700 employees and had $27.90 billion in revenue in 2011.
I am ready to go back to work
I just want to submit my CV’s if there’s a possibility to join in our organization.
Currently working in Petro Rabigh Refinery and Petrochemicals Company here in Rabigh, Saudi Arabia.
With several years of experience in Oil and Gas Industry for almost 10 years, I’m very optimistic, initiative, versatile in the fields of administration. Not only that, my flexibility could be my asset and ready to handle tasks as may be assigned.
Thank you very much.
DOMINADOR P. ESTRADA
To Whom it may concern: I would like to register a complaint as to a total disregard to safety. I was recently a former employee on Bechtel’s Sabine pass LNG CHENIERE project in Cameron Louisiana during the beginning months of 2017. Let me first start off by saying I am a veteran to the construction industry and have a combined total of almost 30 years in the field as a journeyman worker and crew foreman, I have worked with several companies on various sites , in operating facilities such as papermills, chemical plants, refineries,to new construction grass root projects. I have witnessed crane accidents, serious injuries,even more than one fatality on the job.So I would like to say that upon my orientation process to the Sabine pass job site and having watched the PowerPoint presentation on your companies vision and having heard Mr. Riley Bechtel’s stance on safety being the foremost priority on the job and that every member of Bechtel’s supervision as well as employees are responsible for this to take place I was impressed not to mention glad to be a part of this project and it’s team. However after having been on the site for the first 2 weeks of my employment I started to get concerned as to the priority of safety over production. I started to notice several occasions where it appeared that finishing a task deadline were taking precedence over employee safety. On one such occasion we had wind speeds up to and in excess of 46 MPH, now during orientation I had inquired as to at what wind speed did lifts and aerial work cease and was told that 45 MPH was the speed at which wind out occurs. A crane was placing a 12,000 pount structural steel bent on to the train 5 NO 1 rack and the employees on the ground were having a hard enough time controlling the lift with 2 tag lines attached onto it, let alone for the two gentlemen in the air . The employees attempted to make the lift twice but we unable to control it in the wind either time. Eventually they returned the load to the ground and decided to shut down while the wind was so high. Within 6 minutes they told the employees hurry up and send it back up and connect it on top of the splices as they were instructed to do so per the general foreman after being told there wasn’t a set wind out speed on that project, and that as long as the operator was good with flying it, they were to proceed as instructed. Although this task was accomplished without incident that crane was the only one working all others had ceased movement.this occasion as well as others were gradually convincing me that completing a job time line either ahead of or on schedule was
Priority over employee safety. The project had always had a all Hands Monday morning safety meeting up until a week ago . One morning last week upon arrival at the print shack I witnessed a particular superintendent (MARK Johnson) telling my general foreman over the radio that he needed to get with the foreman over the crew members who were assigned to the task of laying the grating in place and get them going that they needed all the grating in place A.S.A.P.later that day an employee who was shaking out grating although he was tied off property he steped through a hole in the grating and in doing so recieved minor lacerations to both his arms and face.The aforementioned employee was taken to the hospital. He had his wounds treated and was released to duty. There was no safety stand down after the incident to took place to discuss the incident and all employees were ordered to return to work as normal. The following Monday we were informed that the weekly mass safety meetings were being changed to a once a month meeting. While performing our morning crew meeting the senior general foreman(Reggie Smith) was calling the general foreman and said he needed to tell the crew on the grating to get going that they wanted all the grating by the end of the week. later that day approximately 3:00 in the afternoon a different employee, on a different crew, working on a different rack performing the exact same job task shaking out grating, I witnessed another incident when while attempting to drag the grating into place with a hook fell through the grating. After that second fall they told the job that there was to be no elevated work only ground work.And that they were to clean up the work site,organize the iron in the staging areas , and that the whole project were to retake the fall protection training while the supervision,safety,regional corporate,and the client came up with a solution to eliminate the incidents from continuing to take place.the employees were asked by the members of corporate what they thought was the reason for these incidents that keep occurring and what could be done to stop them. Several employees stated that they have been being pushed by the superintendent over iron and his senior general foreman and that rather than give them time to shake out the grating and stack it as it will be pulled off in the order it needed to be laid but rather just fly the bundles up on the top elevation and shake it out and lay it out in the air.The next two and a half days were spent cleaning and straitening the iron in the staging areas. Then at 11:30 Friday 3/17/17 we were told we were to resume all normal work assignments,after lunch I witnessed a call come across the job radio “Emergency man down” I ran to see if I could assist but upon seeing the employee I could tell he had a severe head laceration the employee had had a seizure while walking down through the rack and had struck his head on the concrete slab when he fell ,an ambulance was called and the employee was taken to the hospital for treatment. After that incident they had several employees quit the project my self included as it was apparent that although there was safety discussed on the job that finishing the job ahead of schedule, or on time was the mindset of the superintendent and that the concern for safety was no longer the top priority, but production and cost were. I would like to point out that this was the similar mindset that B.P. took when the drilling rig deep horizon blew out and it not only was a very costly accident, but several men lost there life by being pressured to drill when they knew not to. I cannot speak as to why the other hands left the project but as for my self since I had hired in I had recieved news that there had already been one fatality due to a fall , and in the past week and half the Sabine pass LNG project has suffered 3 recordable incidents. I Can Attest to the fact that until the mindset changes back towards safety the triangle is in motion and it will continue to get worse until someone else gets severely hurt or there is another fatality on the project. The purpose of this email is not to try and make Bechtel look bad in any way but to encourage you to look into the mindset on that particular site and to try to turn it around for the better . I took my own action to ensure I remained safe but countless other employees are depending on that job to earn a living. An employees safety should always b the foremost concern.
Yo trabajo en baytown tx y bechtell prefiere pagar mejor a otras companias como máster craf y costum arc ,que a su propia gente a ellos si les paga perdim toda la semana y a nosotros no ,a ellos si les da overtime y a nosotros no ,sí al guíen be esto aga algo por que a su propia gente de bechtell no nos tratan bien no es justo o ay mucha corrupción
Dear Sir
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With Regard
Mr KOSSI
hi There
I am contacting you from South Africa.
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I specialize in the manufacture of overalls.
I would like to have the opportunity in supplying Africa with our product.
We are highly competitive and our quality is of The ISO 9000 standards.
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please can you let me know or perhaps put me in contact with the correct person.
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Dear Bechtel corporation
i wish to inform Bechtel pipeline corporation that there are pipeline construction investment opportunities in my country Cameroon – Africa. Bechtel will be interested investing as they did in Algeria Africa.Ii will like the corporation to contact me for more detail for their eventual investment.
Best regards
Charles EPIE SONE
Petroleum Jurist
CEO and General Manager
Sahel Petroleum and Mineral Transport Company – Spamtco mineral logistics
Africa Cameroon
tel. 237-747XXXXx