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Bechtel provides engineering, construction, and project management. The company's portfolio encompasses energy, transportation, communications, mining, oil and gas, and government services with current projects in dozens of locations worldwide, from Alaska to Australia.
Privately owned with headquarters in San Francisco, the Bechtel Corporation is the largest engineering company in the United States, and ranks as the countries 7th largest privately owned company. They employ around 44,000 (2009 figures) in nearly 50 countries. In 2007, the company had revenues of $27 billion and booked new work valued at $34.1 billion.
Bechtel are involved in the following industries:
- Airports and seaports
- Communications networks
- Defense and aerospace facilities
- Environmental cleanup projects
- Fossil and nuclear power plants
- Mines and smelters
- Oil and gas field development
- Pipelines
- Roads and rail systems
- Refineries and petrochemical facilities
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Updated 10/12/09
