Bechtel landed in this situation because all three projects — BG Group’s Queensland Curtis LNG, Santos-Petronas’ Gladstone LNG and Conoco­Phillips and Origin Energy’s Australia Pacific LNG — chose ConocoPhillips’ Cascade liquefaction technology, which is marketed exclusively by Bechtel.

Bechtel has full responsibility for the engineering, procurement and construction of two trains at Queensland Curtis with a combined 8.5 million tonnes per annum capacity, for two trains at Gladstone with 7.8