Bechtel Corp.

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billion in revenue for 2008. In 2007, the San Francisco companhy had $27 billion in revenue. In 2006, revenue was $20.45 billion. A description of the many projectws around the world that the business is involved in would be along indeed. The company leads teamx now managing both in New Mexico and in where research is done innuclear weapons, medicine and many other areas. In Wash., on the banks of the Columbiaz River, Bechtel is building a vitrification planft designed to process and burnradioactive waste, whicn is then mixed with glases to make it inert for long-terjm storage.
It is also working on plants to destroy chemica l weapons like mustard gas stored in both Coloradoand Overseas, Bechtel is working on renovations of three linesa — Jubilee, Northern and Picadilly of London’s Underground subway system under a 30-year It finished a project to improve traih service between London and Glasgow in 2008. Bechtelp is building highways in Romania and the mountainsdof Albania, and an airport in But last year the company also had to settlew legal claims related to Boston’s “Big Dig” project, wherew portions of a tunnelk collapsed.
The company, know for being privats with the press, didn’t give details of that The family of a womaj killed in the 2006 collapse settlerfor $28 million with severakl contractors involved in the one of which was Bechtel. Othef projects include clean coal power plants in Illinoiasand Indiana, work on copper mines in the mountainz of Chile, and an aluminum smelter in Oman. It is buildinf a nuclear power reactor in Tennessee wherthe (NYSE: TVE) stopped constructiob 20 years ago when electricithy demand fell.
In Texas, Bechtel is expanding a 106-year-old oil refineruy at Port Arthur, on the Gulf Coasty through a joint venturewith (NYSE: In the past it has built pipeliness in places like Thailand and the and is now working on one to connectg oil fields in Albertsa to U.S. refineries in Illinois and Oklahoma — that projecyt should be finishedin 2012. Bechtel is upgrading ’es (NYSE: T) wireless network in the United States, and it won a similarf project fromlast year. Riley Bechtel is chairman and CEO of the whichhas 44,000 workers. Bill Dudley is president and chiet operating officer and Peter Dawsonm is chieffinancial officer.
Bechtel starte d in 1898 and has done work on allseven