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Curtis Island, Australia 23°46’413”S | 151°12’42”E The Experiences and Challenges of Building LNG in Australia Kevin Berg, Principal Vice President, General Manager, Gladstone Operations CIVIL GOVERNMENT SERVICES MINING & METALS OIL, GAS & CHEMICALS POWER

Kevin Berg - Bechtel - The experiences and challenges of building LNG plants in Australia

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Kevin Berg delivered the presentation at the 2014 South East Asia Australia Offshore and Onshore Conference (SEAAOC). SEAAOC is Northern Australia's largest and longest established petroleum conference and brings together major players involved within Australasia's oil, gas and petroleum industries. The event is run as a partnership between Informa Australia and the Department of the Chief Minister - Northern Territory Government of Australia. For more information about the event, please visit: http://bit.ly/SEAAOC2014

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Page 1: Kevin Berg - Bechtel - The experiences and challenges of building LNG plants in Australia

Curtis Island, Australia

23°46’413”S | 151°12’42”E

The Experiences and Challenges

of Building LNG in Australia

Kevin Berg, Principal Vice President,

General Manager, Gladstone Operations

CIVIL

GOVERNMENT SERVICES

MINING & METALS

OIL, GAS & CHEMICALS

POWER

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Bechtel: A Family Lead Company

116 years old

23,000 projects in 140 nations

Four generations of family

leadership

Over 55,000 employees worldwide

5 Global Business Units

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Project Highlights

Ivanpah Solar Generating System

Russell City Energy Center

Sabine Pass LNG

Chornobyl Shelter Implementation Plan

Hanna Region Transmission

Corpus Christi LNG

West Nile Delta Gas Plants

Jamnagar 3 Offsites and Utilities

Liwan Gas

Wheatstone LNG

Queensland LNG Projects Pascagoula Base Oil Project

Kitimat Modernization Project

Worsley Alumna Efficiency & Growth Project

Brisbane Hub Projects

Yarwun Alumina Refinery

Kooragang Expansion

Ras Al Khair Aluminum Smelter

Surmount 2

California Valley Solar Ranch

Prairie State Energy Campus

Davis-Besse Nuclear Plant

Watts Barr Nuclear Plant

Panda Power Projects

Metro Rio Project

McCarran Airport

Blue Grass Pilot Plant Crossrail &

Reading Lines

Crossrail

Kosovo Motorway

Jubail

Hamad Airport

Khalifa & KPIZ

Hanford WTP/ Hanford Cleanup

Lawrence Livermore National Lab

Los Alamos National Lab

Dulles Metro Extension

Pueblo Pilot Plant

Reagan Test Site

U.S. Nuclear Security Enterprise

Naval Nuclear Propulsion Plants

Gabon Infrastructure

Angola LNG

Mozambique LNG

Las Bambas Mine

Antapaccay Mine

Laguna Seca Project

Muscat Airport

Wa’ad Al Shammal City Development

Savannah River Remediation

Sellafield Pile Silo Retrieval Project

Gatwick Airport

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LNG Portfolio

Angola LNG

Wheatstone LNG

Sabine Pass Liquefaction

Atlantic

LNG Darwin LNG

Curtis Island LNGs

Equatorial

Guinea LNG

Egyptian LNG

Since 1996, Bechtel has built more than one-third of the world's LNG production plants.

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Curtis Island: A Case Study

Highest concentration of Bechtel

projects in the world

Three projects, three customers,

one location

Tough delivery schedules

Peak workforce more than 13,000

Worker accommodation 6,600

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Video: Curtis Island Overview

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1. Centralised strategy

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2. Building community trust

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Workforce influx and behaviour

Housing and accommodation

Traffic management

Shipping movements

Local employment

Local suppliers

Industrial relations

Community health and safety

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3. Skilled workforce

Direct hire execution

More than 13,000 across 3 projects:

- 3,266 FNM

- 9,897 craft employees

95% Australian - 40% Gladstone

415 Indigenous Australians

1,945 Women

Targeted recruitment

Extensive training programs:

- Up-skilling

- 400 apprentices

- Queensland’s Employer of the Year

Safe delivery

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4. Construction Execution

Sub-contractors support successful

project delivery

3,500+ sub-contractor employees

Provide specialist expertise and

skilled labour pool

- Site Preparation

- Marine Works (Jetty / MOF’s)

- Permanent Buildings

- Local workshops for smaller scope

- 66% of contracts awarded to

Australian suppliers

Hundreds of millions injected into the

local business community

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5. Module program

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Video: Modularisation

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