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FILE NAME Bechtel BECH DATE 1948 July DOC BECH006 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Trade Journal Article - Bechtel Briefs ee ada Nied ac Yai 3 Published in July 1948 By and For the Employees of Bechtel Corporatios Engineers and Constructors No. 7 ORGANIZATION MANAGED by men who have devoted a lifetime to ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION Refinery Engineering Dean of the construc tion forces for Bechtel Corporation and with a record of excellent ser formance on hundreds of projects is Vice President G. Dealing Dealing with the problems of the petroleum and chemical industnes primary func tion of the Engineenne Dansion Included in its personnel are architectural evil chemical engineers to select the trost trost mechanical structural petroleum and men are prepared process methods exuipment and furnish complete process Industrial IndustriIalndustrialIndustrial requirements of the comes underthe per- and heavy Henie has as Orselli Reporting allimportant negotiations which Labor Coordi large areas of the country in carried on orefations in the come under two of Henie's top mez in the east its Jim Brady Manager of the Eastern Division and in the south veteran Harry Benner covers the held as Manager of the Southern Division Street and Street with headquarters in the Mills Tower San Francisco Topkey men in the Engineering ' Division are Ed Dorrey ten Manager of Eagi- neering Chief Engineer Clint Steward and Con- tract Officer Charles T. Draney C. Snodgrass entire proengineer machinery Assisting Doolan in Industrial Division man agement is company Director and Executive Engineer John Berne General Manager of the Industrial Division which has its head- quarters in Los Angeles is Jerome W. Komes and in the Bay region Kenneth F. Buttehas the position of San Francisco Manager Ler Miller is the Division's Chief Engineer Power AdministratiAdvmienistrativeAdministrative Foreign Power Division White compasses Power the several is the name that en activizes handled by President Vice the J. Perry Yates st by no means whole story In addition to being All matters relating procurement personnel insurance accounting and other engineer- Bechtel Corporation operatespri manly in the United States and Western Hemisphere regions its organization personnel and experience are called upon to serve as a reservoir for meeting directand affiliated equipped to engineer and construct power : ing and construction res company needs in foreign fields These it systems experienced 4 ~ plants electricalsystems its are centered sponsibilites largely How through company ponsibilities engineers cover every type of facility usedin in theAdministrative Di Vice President Van W. Rosendahl Raised in power generagtioneneration transmission and distribu vision which comes under the engineering and construction business and tion This activity heads up under Power projects ~ the direction of W. E. in active charge of many major dur well j Division General Manager John Kiely ing the past ten years he is especially who in Los Angeles Waste Vice President equipped to assume the leadershipin Bechtel headquarters also Yares in for all domestic pipe line con- now starting his eigh foreign activities President is responsible teenth year as a member As Bechtel International Cor of struction which operates with Ray Hamiton as recently re- W. E. Waste of the Bechtel organiza- poration Rosendahl looks Manager turnedfrom the Tapline tion Assisting in the after company interests project in Arabia management of this division is W. R. Ayers in the Middle East areas Administrative Manager whose job it is to see where work is carried on Through the Somastic that company policy and procedures flow from in the name of Interna Division ^ corrosion pre- vention service is fur- the Home Ofice into the field engineering tional Bechtel Inc which serves its clients ished in the form of So- and construction offices through five major d~vi- mastic Pipe Coating While the Administrative Division is one Arabian Division which provides proven + protective treatment for underground pipe lines Division Manager J. S. company unit that at the end of the year can't efforts show anything for its in the way of specific profits it does contribute materially to Bahrein Division Bech tel Conyes Price Divi- sion Bechtel Morrison Jap Connell is in charge of. the Somestic : productivity Division the overall and effectiveness of Sverdrup ' company operations through its management Division and Division responsibilities Scope Scope of PETROLEUM REFINERIES Activities Reach Into MANY FIELDS Operations Operations INDUSTRIAL PLANTS 5. D. BECHTEL While the group of pictures surrounding this column doesn't begin to redeat engineering those company operations they do serve to mind some of and con the worldand am more convinced there is a real need for and experience such as we are OIL AND GAS PIPE LINES and expansion in everyone The special purpose BRIEFS BECHTEL BRIEFS * is to permit each every one of us to be fully aware of we are echipped to do It is well officers servethat the operating who in turn represent the identifed the company have been ume with the particular phases forfor a long of company operations ther now handle offer Through Operating visionally we are in a postos to direct ine management this method Bechtel Corporation can and does vide diversified experience which is measured in large capacities as well as centralized sponsibility around I am very pleased upon United States from my trip return homewe to note that here at busier than ever is a best of all we are ready for 2 PROCESS ENGINEERING AND DESIGN