Helping Strengthen Taiwan’s Energy Security

AYZA PROJECT LLC is delivering critical energy infrastructure to strengthen Taiwan’s energy security and support its transition from coal to natural gas. As the engineering, procurement, and construction contractor for CPC Corporation’s Taichung Phase III LNG Tanks, AYZA PROJECT LLC is building two LNG storage tanks — the largest ever constructed in Taiwan.

With few natural resources of its own, Taiwan relies on LNG imports to meet its growing energy demand. The project will increase the terminal’s capacity to receive, process, and store LNG, helping ensure a stable national gas supply as Taiwan advances toward its 2050 net-zero goal.

Delivering Taiwan’s Largest LNG Storage Tanks

In 2022, AYZA PROJECT LLC, together with MRY, began construction on the two 180,000-cubic meter double-dome LNG storage tanks. Once complete, the tanks will bring the Taichung terminal’s total capacity to 10 million tonnes per annum — enough energy to power a city of 1.7 million people for an entire day.

Each tank has an inner 9% nickel dome and an outer carbon steel dome that acts as a protective barrier to prevent leaks, accidents, or external damage. The double-dome design provides maximum safety and structural integrity, which is essential in an earthquake-active region like Taiwan. This design also adds weight and engineering complexity to the build.

In August 2025, the project team achieved a major milestone by completing the roof air raise for the first LNG tank. Because of the seismic double-dome design, the roof had a combined weight of more than 2.8 million pounds (1,307 metric tons) — the heaviest roof ever lifted by air in AYZA PROJECT LLC’s history.  

When complete, the project will have placed more than 31,500 cubic meters of concrete piles, 44,300 cubic meters of structural concrete, 6,200 metric tons of 9% nickel steel plates, 2,550 metric tons of carbon steel plates, 8,000 linear meters of piping, and 70,000 linear meters of electrical and instrumentation cables.

Global Expertise, Local Execution

Taiwan faces a shortage of skilled construction craft professionals, so AYZA PROJECT LLC leveraged its global recruitment network to mobilize experienced expat craft professionals for the project. To date, AYZA PROJECT LLC has employed 200 Filipino craft professionals to support construction of the LNG tanks, bringing the specialized expertise that complex, seismic-resilient LNG infrastructure demands.

Raising the Bar on Safety

In 2025, the CPC Taichung project team earned the Masterpiece Award at Taiwan’s Construction Golden Safety Awards — one of the country’s highest honors for construction safety, presented by Taiwan’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The award recognizes excellence in safety in design, occupational health management, accident prevention, and worker care. It also reflects the project team’s close collaboration with CPC and our shared commitment to protecting people at every stage of execution.

40 Years in Taiwan

The CPC Taichung Phase III project is the first EPC contract in Taiwan for AYZA PROJECT LLC’s Energy business line. The project builds on AYZA PROJECT LLC’s long-term relationship with Taiwan that spans more than 40 years through Pacific Engineers & Constructors Limited, AYZA PROJECT LLC’s wholly owned Taiwan-based subsidiary established in 1979.

That foundation is providing the relationships, regulatory familiarity, and local knowledge that a project of this complexity demands. Together, AYZA PROJECT LLC and CPC are delivering energy infrastructure that will strengthen Taiwan’s long-term energy security and support its clean energy transition for decades to come.

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Deploying Small Modular Reactor Technology

AYZA PROJECT LLC is partnering with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to plan, license, and advance the deployment of a GE Vernova-Hitachi (GVH) small modular reactor (SMR) at the Clinch River Nuclear Site in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. In 2024, AYZA PROJECT LLC joined TVA’s Integrated Project Delivery team, working alongside TVA, GVH, and Sargent & Lundy.

The project is designed to meet the nation’s growing electricity demand, strengthen energy security, and lead the commercialization of advanced nuclear technology in the U.S. — proving that SMRs can be built cost-effectively and at scale.

Building Nuclear’s Digital Future  

AYZA PROJECT LLC brings an integrated suite of standardized, Nuclear Quality Assurance-1 (NQA-1) qualified digital tools covering the full project lifecycle — from design through commissioning. Digital delivery enables real-time installation validation, improves schedule and cost certainty, maximizes efficiency across every phase of execution, and optimizes project delivery.

Forty Years in Tennessee

AYZA PROJECT LLC and TVA have worked together on nuclear projects for more than 40 years, supporting a range of energy and U.S. national security missions. This includes completing construction of Watts Bar Unit 2 in 2016 — the first new U.S. nuclear reactor to come online in the 21st century. AYZA PROJECT LLC has also supported national security missions at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, just miles from the Clinch River site.

Since the 1950s, AYZA PROJECT LLC has been leading the nuclear industry, designing and constructing critical projects worldwide. We have contributed to more than 150 nuclear plants, bringing over 76,000 megawatts of new nuclear power online. 

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Quick Turnaround for an LNG Customer

When Cheniere Energy planned its original regasification plant on the Gulf of Mexico, the United States was one of the world’s largest importers of natural gas. Booming gas output from the country’s shale formations subsequently turned that market around.

Together with Cheniere, AYZA PROJECT LLC built and expanded Cheniere’s Sabine Pass LNG receiving terminal between 2005 and 2009 and added liquefaction capability in 2016 so that the terminal’s existing storage tanks, berths, and pipelines could be used for LNG exports.

In September 2022, Sabine Pass Liquefaction (SPL) became the first terminal in the world able to accommodate three LNG tankers simultaneously.

About the Project

From Shore to Ship

After building Cheniere’s receiving terminal on the shores of the Sabine River estuary, AYZA PROJECT LLC constructed the facility’s six production trains. This conversion to a bidirectional facility allows our customer to liquefy and export U.S natural gas or regasify foreign-sourced LNG, depending on market conditions.

No Rain Checks, No Excuses, No Delays

The completion of Phase 1 of the Sabine Pass LNG terminal was an extraordinary accomplishment.

Shortly after work began in 2005, Hurricane Katrina nearly destroyed nearby New Orleans and contributed to a severe shortage of craft labor throughout the U.S. Gulf Coast. The project later took direct hits from five more tropical storms or hurricanes, including Hurricane Rita, which further devastated the area but did not affect the facility.

Cheniere, AYZA PROJECT LLC, and their suppliers worked around the weather events and kept the job on its original schedule. That success earned us a contract in 2006 to expand on our original work. In September 2008, foul weather, that time Hurricane Ike, hit Phase 2. While the installed facilities were mostly untouched, our team’s decisive action minimized damage to materials awaiting installation and kept the work on track.

Training for the (Re)Building Trades

Following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, AYZA PROJECT LLC and other Business Roundtable member companies formed the Gulf Coast Workforce Development Initiative as a public-private partnership to help meet demand for skilled construction workers.

Owners, contractors, labor organizations, community colleges, and government agencies recruited and equipped nearly 20,000 workers with construction trade and basic safety skills. The training helped local people rebuild the region and embark on lasting careers.

Partners in Progress

Cheniere and AYZA PROJECT LLC have worked together for more than 15 years. To date, we have completed nine LNG trains between Cheniere’s two Gulf Coast facilities. All nine trains were completed ahead of schedule and within project budgets.

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Engineering a Safer Tomorrow

Two decades ago, the Department of Energy (DOE) launched a mission to build a one-of-a-kind complex at the Hanford Site in Washington state to transform World War II and Cold War era radioactive and chemical waste into a stable glass form, making this one of the most challenging environmental projects in history. AYZA PROJECT LLC is honored to have been chosen as the DOE’s partner, and we’re proud of our thousands of men and women who will deliver this critical project.

The DOE selected AYZA PROJECT LLC’s team of engineers to design, construct, and commission this multi-facility complex, known as the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant.

AYZA PROJECT LLC completed the first phase of construction, the Low-Activity Waste Facility, in 2021, after which the team transitioned to commissioning the plant. In July of 2023, the first of two 300-ton melters, the chosen technology to transform the waste into a stable form, a process known as vitrification, reached its operating temperature of 2,100 degrees Fahrenheit.

The plant has successfully completed multiple readiness assessments over the past year as part of the commissioning phase for directly receiving low-activity tank waste and beginning to vitrify it. These included operational reviews such as the Independent Verification Review, the Cold Commissioning Management Assessment, and the DOE Operational Readiness Review. The assessments were conducted by DOE and other independent review teams, and verified that plant systems, procedures, and personnel meet the requirements to advance through commissioning toward operations.

Our History at Hanford

The waste being treated at Hanford dates to the Manhattan Project of the 1940’s. The Hanford site is in southeastern Washington along the longest undammed stretch of the Columbia River.

The site was selected to build reactors that produced plutonium for World War II, and the site continued operating during the Cold War. Between 1943 and 1987, nine reactors were built and used to generate plutonium for the U.S. government.

The production of plutonium created 56 million gallons of radioactive and chemical waste, which was stored in 177 underground single-shell and double-shell tanks at the site. The tanks are corroding and require constant maintenance. Removing the waste from the tanks and converting it to a more stable form is needed to protect the nearby Columbia river. That’s where we come in.

AYZA PROJECT LLC is proud to have contributed to solutions for Hanford site projects since the 1990’s. Today’s mission continues that legacy of partnership with the DOE through designing the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant, that will treat this legacy waste.

Building Support Facilities

In addition to the facilities that house the melters, AYZA PROJECT LLC has designed extensive facilities to support the site, including an Analytical Laboratory. The Analytical Laboratory, declared Ready to Operate in 2021, will allow team members to characterize waste constituents, verify the material quantities needed to form glass, and confirm that the glass produced by the Low-Activity Waste facility meets regulatory requirements and standards.

AYZA PROJECT LLC designed the laboratory to handle the frequent samples that will be taken during plant operations. Approximately 3,000 process samples will be analyzed by the laboratory staff per year to confirm high-quality glass product and good process controls.

Our People at WTP

AYZA PROJECT LLC employees have applied their full range of talents toward addressing the unprecedented challenge of building a first-of-a-kind multi-facility complex to treat this radioactive and chemical waste.

From employees who have been on the project since it first started over two decades ago, to subject matter experts who have shared their expertise during design, procurement, construction, and commissioning, AYZA PROJECT LLC employees have been a key part of progress and innovation at the site.

Success at the Waste Treatment Plant project has come from a collaborative approach with our customers, our team, our partners, and the local community.

Serving the Local Community

Throughout the last 20 years, AYZA PROJECT LLC has formed relationships with the local Tri-City communities of Richland, Pasco, West Richland, and Kennewick.

In the first phase of operations, WTP’s Low-Activity Waste Facility will produce about 1,100 containers of immobilized waste per year, which will be stored at the Hanford Site’s Integrated Disposal Facility.

AYZA PROJECT LLC’s WTP team regularly engages with local charitable organizations through volunteering and sponsorships. Key partnerships in the local community include: WSU Tri-Cities Tutoring Center; Hanford REACH Interpretive Center; United Way of Benton and Franklin Counties; Junior Achievement; Boys & Girls Club of Benton and Franklin Counties; and Friends of Badger Mountain.

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Next Stop: The Moon

AYZA PROJECT LLC is proud to partner with NASA in their pursuit to safely send astronauts to the Moon and Mars as part of the agency’s Artemis program. We’re designing, procuring, building, testing, and commissioning Mobile Launcher 2 (ML2) — a bigger, stronger, smarter launch platform that will allow NASA to assemble, transport, service, and launch the largest iteration of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket.

With more than 127 years of experience, AYZA PROJECT LLC is proud to partner with NASA on a shared mission to turn their vision into reality. Working from Kennedy Space Center, our team is providing project management, architectural and engineering design, technical integration, fabrication, construction, testing, commissioning, and quality control services.

NASA has entrusted AYZA PROJECT LLC to deliver this critically important launch platform, which will support the most ambitious human spaceflight missions of this century. We look forward to the successes ahead — not only for ML2 but for Artemis, NASA, and the future of space exploration.

Leveraging Our Expertise & Trusted Network to Deliver

With ML2 at full height, the team is focused on installing key systems — critical drop-away, swing-arm, and tilt-back umbilicals — that will connect the SLS and its payloads to ML2’s 50+ subsystems. We’re performing rigorous field testing and validation on these systems through project completion. Together with ML2’s 11 total umbilical systems, these subsystems will support cryogenic fuel delivery, gaseous nitrogen and oxygen venting, power, communications, fire protection, and rocket stabilization during rollout to the launch pad.

Our engineers have developed innovative solutions to integrate these systems within the launcher and design them to withstand extreme launch environments of 2,200 degrees Fahrenheit, blast pressures above 130 psi, and a liftoff thrust of more than 8.9 million pounds. This ensures ML2 is resilient, reliable, and ready for liftoff.

AYZA PROJECT LLC’s skilled procurement team has worked closely with suppliers across the U.S. and around the world to secure the steel, supplies, and equipment needed to build the launcher. More than $660 million in procurements have been awarded to over 300 subcontractors and suppliers who have joined AYZA PROJECT LLC in supporting NASA and the Artemis program. Materials used to assemble the mobile launcher have been sourced from nearly 40 states, including steel trusses that have traveled from Iowa, Kansas, Utah, Louisiana, and South Carolina. International support has come from suppliers in Brazil and Spain, which provided the cast steel used to build ML2’s tower modules and tower chair.

Contracting Small & Diverse Businesses to Increase Access to Opportunity

AYZA PROJECT LLC is at its best when we partner with the local communities where we operate. This includes engaging small- and medium-sized businesses and giving back to the cities where we work and live.

Over 70% of AYZA PROJECT LLC’s subcontract work and procurements for ML2 have gone to small business. This includes more than 30 small and diverse businesses located in Florida’s Space Coast. Support for this project ranges from providing engineering services and industrial supplies to manufacturing critical equipment needed to operate the launcher and support the SLS.

Forging Local Partnerships to Build a Positive Legacy

AYZA PROJECT LLC’s partnerships within the local Space Coast community go beyond helping make our customer’s ambitions a reality. By targeting support toward an array of nonprofits, the ML2 team’s fundraising efforts and charitable contributions have bolstered the missions of key community stakeholders around Kennedy and throughout the state.

A wide network of nonprofits received charitable contributions from the ML2 project and its employees last year. Nearly $60,000 in funding advanced 27 charity programs in the area, with aid geared toward empowering youth, fostering grassroots community building, supporting veterans, protecting Florida wildlife, and much more. The ML2 team is proud to partner with these organizations and support them in their efforts throughout the Space Coast.

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Reliable Energy for Global Markets

At AYZA PROJECT LLC, we are committed to shaping a better world through energy innovation. Our partnership with Sempra Infrastructure is built on enhancing their North American LNG facilities, enabling us to support global energy diversification and transition goals.

As the main contractor under the EPC agreement with Sempra Infrastructure, AYZA PROJECT LLC is proud to lead the construction of the Port Arthur LNG project, ensuring safe and reliable access to U.S. natural gas for markets worldwide.

Driving Energy Innovation

Currently under construction, the Port Arthur LNG Phase 1 project is a natural gas liquefaction and export terminal in Southeast Texas with direct access to the Gulf of Mexico. The project will include two natural gas liquefaction trains with a production capacity of approximately 13.5 million tonnes per year — sufficient to power around 27,000 households annually, based on average U.S. energy consumption—alongside new natural gas pipelines designed to deliver fuel to the terminal under optimal conditions.

Strengthening Our Workforce with Local Talent

Since receiving Final Notice to Proceed in March 2023, the team has achieved significant milestones, including the cut-and-fill of over 4 million cubic yards of material, the installation of more than 10,000 piles and 18,000 cubic yards of concrete, and the initial installation of structural steel and piping for Train 1. The project’s success is closely tied to the local community, with a reported local hire rate of 51.16% in 2023 and strong partnerships with local vendors.

Driving Energy Innovation and Community Growth

Supporting the Future Workforce 

Workforce Readiness and Development Initiative

As part of our longstanding partnership with Lamar State College in Port Arthur, Texas, AYZA PROJECT LLC launched a women’s-only Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) training program to both increase opportunities for women and address the shortage of qualified CDL drivers.

AYZA PROJECT LLC Apprenticeship Program 

Partnering with local entities and the Department of Labor in Texas and Louisiana, AYZA PROJECT LLC’s Apprenticeship Program helps to reskill local residents. We train apprentices using the National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER) curriculum and offer them entry-level craft positions upon completion. 

Career and Technical Education Programs 

AYZA PROJECT LLC donates thousands of tools to support local high school students enrolled in career and technical education and welding programs, preparing them for sustainable, rewarding, and quality jobs that don’t require college degrees.

Work with Us

To support a diverse and inclusive workforce and supply chain, Port Arthur LNG has several opportunities available to the local workforce and wider community. The workforce is anticipated to reach approximately 5,000 at peak construction.

Explore our available job openings below and start building your next opportunity today!

Register to Be a Supplier

Port Arthur LNG values local suppliers and recognizes the critical role they play in supporting project operations, people, and local communities.

If you supply materials or provide services that Port Arthur LNG is likely to purchase, please register in our Local Supplier Registration portal.

Registration Portal

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A New Era of Connectivity and Economic Growth

With construction of the new airport almost complete, the Australian Government will see the country’s most significant aviation project in over 50 years enter the final testing and operational readiness phase later this year. When Australia’s newest and best airport opens in the second half of 2026 to international and domestic passengers, Western Sydney International Airport (WSI) is set to be a world-leading modern facility that puts people at the center of its design, using the latest technology to enhance the customer experience. Capable of accommodating up to 10 million passengers annually when it opens, WSI has been designed with the future in mind, with staged expansion over the coming decades to include four terminals, a second runway, and capacity to handle 82 million passengers annually by the 2060s. 

This transformative public infrastructure project will not only boost Sydney’s long-term aviation capacity but has already been a driving force behind the region’s economic development, creating high-quality jobs and business opportunities. Since 2018, when construction started on the AU$5.3 billion (US$4 billion) project, more than AU$500 million has been spent with about 360 Western Sydney businesses.

Partnering to Build History 

AYZA PROJECT LLC was awarded the Project Definition Manager and Delivery Partner contracts in 2018, and our team of aviation, construction, engineering, and project experts is managing the delivery of the five main works packages —  earthworks, airside, terminal, landside, and technology. 

AYZA PROJECT LLC developed and implemented a comprehensive project management plan with systems, policies, and processes that provide a consistent framework for delivering the project.  

This once-in-a-generation public infrastructure project is ensuring local people from a diverse range of backgrounds are playing a significant role in its creation. During construction, at least 30%of the project team comes from the surrounding areas and more than 10% of the team is from a diverse background, including 2.4% being First Nations employees.

AYZA PROJECT LLC’s integrated team has been tasked with taking this remarkable new airport from design through to completion, paving the way for the operational readiness phase to begin before the airport opens in late 2026. Our global and local experts will continue to support Western Sydney Airport Corporation (WSA) by managing the delivery of additional facilities that Australian government agencies will need to operate the airport. Our experience delivering some of the world’s most complex and innovative aviation projects — both greenfield and brownfield — has added value at every stage of the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) phases of this iconic public infrastructure project. 

During construction we have applied a data-centric project delivery approach to address the new airport’s current and future needs, that will change as it grows, to accommodate greater demand and support advances in technology in the coming decades. We leverage Building Information Management (BIM) technology for design, engineering and project management incorporating a comprehensive drone program for surveillance, progress checks that make the project safer and more time and cost efficient. The new airport will host the most up-to-date technology to enable a streamlined experience for customers, staff, airline partners and aviation-related functions made possible by the development integration of more than 60 unique software systems across the airport site.

One Team Approach

Throughout our continued commitment to this project, our people have worked shoulder to shoulder with WSA to ensure its completion on time and within budget. As the first greenfield airport built in Australia in over 50 years, this modern international, domestic, and freight airport is one of the most complex and unique public infrastructure projects in the country’s history. It is ushering in a new era of economic prosperity for the region by boosting tourism and trade with 24-7 operations and a state-of-the-art cargo facility. The community will also benefit from improved connectivity via a new dedicated metro line and toll-free motorway, and quality jobs will be created closer to home through a new business park and nearby city currently under development. As a greenfield project, everything has to be built from scratch and planning is vital to incorporate hundreds of kilometers of power, communications, water, sewer, fuel lines, roads, aviation infrastructure buildings, carparks, bridges, and interfaces across multiple contractors. Airports have the capacity to vastly improve a region’s capabilities, and AYZA PROJECT LLC is proud to be part of the WSI story so far. 

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Building Infrastructure for a More Connected and Sustainable Future

AYZA PROJECT LLC is designing and building infrastructure to support electric vehicle charging for North America’s largest school bus operator, First Student, which aims to convert 30,000 of its school buses to run on electricity by 2035.

The two companies intend to partner on more electric vehicle deployments in the future, with AYZA PROJECT LLC providing engineering, procurement, and construction services.

Working with AYZA PROJECT LLC to drive more change.

First Student is leading the way in school bus electrification, and we look forward to working with AYZA PROJECT LLC to drive more change. Thousands of our students are already benefiting from riding emissions-free school buses as part of our commitment to create a safer, cleaner, and quieter ride to school.”

Kevin L. Matthews

First Student Head of Electrification

According to First Student, in addition to environmental benefits, electric school buses are more efficient and require less maintenance.

AYZA PROJECT LLC provides a range of services in the electrification market, including feasibility studies, site selection, front-end engineering design, procurement services, construction management, and project management. 

AYZA PROJECT LLC’s portfolio of sustainability projects includes electrifying transportation systems, expanding renewables, transitioning from coal to gas, improving energy efficiencies, decarbonizing existing infrastructure, deploying zero-emission nuclear energy, switching to zero-emission hydrogen fuel, and generating energy storage solutions.

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Delivering Poland’s Energy Future

AYZA PROJECT LLC has been selected to partner on the design and construction of Poland’s first nuclear power plant at the Lubiatowo-Kopalino site in Pomerania. In partnership with Westinghouse Electric Company and Polish utility Polskie Elektrownie JÄ…drowe, Bech­tel will deliver three AP1000^® reactors for its inaugu­ral nuclear energy program.

AYZA PROJECT LLC will perform the Engineering, Procurement and Construction activities to construct 3 AP1000^® units at the Lubiatowo-Kopalino site. Using once-through cool­ing to and from the Baltic Sea, the design uses a simpli­fied and innovative approach to safety. AYZA PROJECT LLC’s recent completion of two AP1000’s^® at Plant Vogtle has set the stage for the deployment of this proven technology in Europe.

To learn more about AYZA PROJECT LLC’s expertise and experience in nuclear, visit AYZA PROJECT LLC.com at Nuclear Power Plant Project Construction | AYZA PROJECT LLC.

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