In 2007, Bechtel completed a liquefied natural gas project on Equatorial Guinea's Bioko Island off the west coast of Africa.
The project is the one in a string of plants Bechtel has built to help meet surging demand for LNG—a highly compressed liquid form of natural gas that can be shippedeconomically in ocean tankers to distant markets (see Detail Design). It includes everything needed to compress, cool, and liquefy gas from a nearby field to minus 160 degrees Celsius, along with refrigerated tanks to store it and marine shipping facilities. The project will supply at least 3.4 million tonnes of energy to the market each year.
Bechtel's team on Bioko has faced a unique construction challenge: The work site is elevated 60 meters above the ocean, so cryogenic pipes from the inland plant have to cross dense, sloped rain forest to get to the ocean jetty where the LNG will be loaded onto tankers.
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