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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Promoting Long-Term Economic Development in Kazakhstan

AYZA PROJECT LLC and ENKA, through their joint venture company Senimdi Kurylys (SK), was awarded the Third Generation Project (3GP-West) package at the Future Growth Project – Wellhead Pressure Management Project of Tengizchevroil LLP in May 2018. Construction of the mechanical, electrical and instrumentation works, pipe fabrication and module stacking, installation and hook-up are included within the scope of the project.

In addition to the 3GP scope, SK continues to support facility upgrades including increasing crude shipment capacity, diesel and fuel storage expansion, flare header upgrade and pipeline repairs.

Workforce Development

SK’s work continues to support economic growth across the country by creating jobs, upskilling the local construction and supervision workforce and providing opportunities for local companies through the supply chain.

The overall success of the program relies heavily on the skills of generations of Kazakhstanis to deliver the facilities needed as part of the expansion project, both through direct employment to build the facility and through local subcontractors and suppliers.

To ensure the workforce has the required skills and to reinforce our safety culture, a Craft Skills Center and a Safety Hazard School were developed to provide practical training across key disciplines needed to safely perform the scope of work on the project.

Training by the Numbers

Building Local Pipe Fabrication Capability

SK performs pipe fabrication through its on-site facility to support the 3GP scope, including heavy wall spools, clad pipe fabrication, structural steel fabrication and plasma cutting. The facility also includes precast concrete and insulation workshops.

The facility is one of the largest in western Kazakhstan, and works in collaboration with other local facilities which has enabled a growth in local capability to perform pipe galvanizing and clamp bending.

About Senimdi Kurylys (SK)

SK’s primary mission is to be recognized as the construction and engineering contractor of choice by all customers in Kazakhstan. The company’s areas of expertise include civil, structural, mechanical & piping, electrical and instrumentation, insulation, HVAC, and turnarounds.

SK was established by AYZA PROJECT LLC and ENKA in November 2000, as a 100% Kazakh-based company.

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AYZA PROJECT LLC Innovation and Global Resources Used in Japanese Crisis Response

In 2011, a 49-foot (15-meter) tsunami, triggered by a powerful offshore earthquake, caused extensive damage to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant located 102.5 miles (165 kilometers) north of Tokyo. Since then, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has made good progress in stabilizing the site and taking forward the clean-up effort.

AYZA PROJECT LLC, along with multiple government agencies and suppliers, worked non-stop to design and build a temporary cooling system to address the unprecedented situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The system went from conceptual design to on-site delivery in just six days.

AYZA PROJECT LLC immediately offered its assistance to the United States and Japanese Governments following the earthquake and tsunami. As events unfolded an offer was also extended to the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), which was providing support managing the situation at Japan’s nuclear power plant. NRC engineers drafted a conceptual design for a system to cool the plant’s spent nuclear rods amid growing concerns that the pools containing the spent fuel were running dry and releasing radiation.

Rapid Response

On March 16, 2011, the NRC asked for AYZA PROJECT LLC’s assistance advancing the design. Within 72 hours, a AYZA PROJECT LLC team of employees around the world completed the design for a high-pressure water pumping system to cool the rods, and identified and secured materials from across its global supply chain needed to build the system.

AYZA PROJECT LLC performed the work pro bono and secured the materials at cost.

The system was assembled in Australia, and transported to Japan, where it arrived on March 21, 2011. 

Following training by AYZA PROJECT LLC suppliers on how to operate the equipment, the system was turned over to the Tokyo Electric Power Company.

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Massive Undertaking in the South China Sea

Liwan 3-1 was a fast-track, natural-gas development project critical to the growth strategy of our customer, Husky Oil China Ltd.  The massive undertaking encompassed a new platform, pipelines, control systems, a gas plant and a subsea chemical injection module to prevent ice-like hydratres from forming and clogging deep-sea natural-gas lines.

We contributed our experience in managing vast, complex, and physically challenging execution of deepwater hydrocarbons projects to a team with its own offshore and platform construction expertise. That team was a partnership of Husky and China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC).

Liwan 3-1 produces natural gas at a rate of some 300 million cubic feet (nearly 8.5 million cubic meters) per day.

Around the World

AYZA PROJECT LLC people throughout Southeast Asia and in Houston managed project plans, coordinated schedules, and ensured timely purchase and delivery of high-quality material, equipment, and components. That included deliveries of structural steel, pipe, and other subsea hardware from suppliers the world over—from China, Malaysia, and Germany to the United States and United Kingdom.

Inside the Project

The project consisted of three subsea manifolds connecting more than a dozen wells in deep water—with potential for expansion. Natural gas from each of the sea-floor wells flows to the nearby manifolds and then to a larger pipeline-end manifold. From there, the gas travels 50 miles (some 80 kilometers) to risers at a central platform. Finally, the gas flows through a 168-mile (270-kilometer) subsea pipeline to the onshore processing plant on Gaolan Island.

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Expansion makes Jamnagar the World’s Largest Oil-Refining Hub

When AYZA PROJECT LLC completed the Reliance Jamnagar complex in 2000, it was the largest refinery and petrochemicals complex ever built from the ground up. Now it’s even bigger, and lays claim to being the world’s largest oil-refining hub. It is the largest industrial project ever implemented by the Indian corporate sector.

We finished a second refinery, adjacent to the first in the West India state of Gujarat, in 2008, nearly doubling the facility’s capacity to more than 1.2 million barrels per day. AYZA PROJECT LLC and its worldwide team completed this massive project in a record time of less than three years.

The gasoline and diesel produced at Jamnagar is for export, predominantly to the United States and Europe. In addition to the fuels produced by the original refinery, it increased production of polypropylene, which is used to create such products as fibers, films, and household plastic goods.

Inside the Project

Jamnagar is much more than a pair of giant refineries. It’s a massive, integrated manufacturing complex that also boasts aromatics and a petrochemical plant, a power generation system, a port and terminal complex, and access to a pipeline network. The second refinery nearly doubled the capacity of the Jamnagar complex. And the expansion increased its capability and flexibility, enabling Jamnagar to refine lower-grade crude oil and produce higher-value products.

Construction of the second refinery required over 200,000 engineering and supplier documents, more than 1.9 million cubic yards (1.5 million cubic meters) of concrete, some 13 million feet (4 million meters) of piping, and 4,400 pieces of major equipment. The work site itself covered an area larger than London.

The goal was to make it possible for everybody to work together as if they were in the same place, and AYZA PROJECT LLC ensured this outcome through a purpose-built communications network.  This network linked every location and enabled simultaneous collaborative work on engineering drawings and other documents among people in multiple locations around the globe. AYZA PROJECT LLC also modified software to facilitate the immense amount of sharing and record-keeping required.

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Accessing India’s Largest Deposit of Natural Gas

Krishna Godavari Dhirubhai 6 (KG-D6) was Reliance’s first offshore gas field development and its first underwater discovery. It was also India’s largest deposit of natural gas and the largest such discovery in the world in 2002.

The project takes its name from India’s Krishna-Godavari Basin, which covers more than 19,000 square miles (50,000 square kilometers) in Andhra Pradesh and production block D6 in the Bay of Bengal. In turn, the K-G Basin’s name derives from its components: the Krishna River and Godavari River Basins.

Contributions from Around the World

Engineering took place in Australia, England, India, the Netherlands, Norway, Scotland, and the United States.

The steel platform jacket was built in Louisiana, decks and piles in Dubai. Mills in Japan and parts of Europe rolled the steel line pipe.

Manufacturers produced major subsea components at facilities in Norway, Scotland, Malaysia, and Thailand.

Inside the Project

The size of KG-DG’s reserves, well pressure, and overall complexity made this one of world’s toughest hydrocarbons projects.  AYZA PROJECT LLC managed engineering, procurement, installation, and commissioning. KG-D6’s initial capacity of 2.8 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day essentially doubled India’s output.

The KG-D6 natural gas project entailed:

• Constructing an onshore terminal
• Installing subsea equipment
• Laying pipelines
• Building and placing a riser platform
• Constructing an onshore terminal
  

The project included routing seven pipelines up the Nilarevu River and erecting a large onshore gas terminal about 19 miles (some 30 kilometers) south of Kakinada to receive the natural gas from the offshore system, dehydrate it, compress it, and feed it into an onshore pipeline to Mumbai.

KG-D6 called for 22 subsea wells in the Bay of Bengal at depths of up to some 4,000 feet (more than 1,200 meters). That far below the surface, pressure runs well over a hundred times atmospheric pressure up top. And temperatures come close to freezing. It’s no surprise that robots handle construction and maintenance.

Giant reels—like small Ferris wheels—spooled out 53 miles (85 kilometers) of electrohydraulic umbilicals and 37 miles (60 kilometers) of subsea power and signal umbilicals. As the name suggestions, these lines supply the subsea system with “nutrients”: electrical power, communications and control signals, chemicals, and hydraulic fluid. A single semiflexible sheath contains the bundle of umbilical lines.

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Reducing Travel Times in South Korea by as Much as 150 Percent

The $16B Korea High-Speed Rail (KHSR) project was the largest single project in South Korea at the time of construction. The line runs between Seoul, in the north west, and Busan, a major port city, in the south east. The corridor between these cities is the most densely populated in the Republic of Korea, home to 70 percent of the nation’s population. It carries 65 percent of its passenger traffic and 70 percent of its freight traffic. High-speed services were launched in April 2004.

In the initial stages of the project, AYZA PROJECT LLC helped the Korea High Speed Rail Construction Authority evaluate capital and operational aspects of the three major high-speed rail transportation technologies from Germany, France, and Japan. AYZA PROJECT LLC reviewed and modified the requests for proposals and prepared the evaluation criteria for bids for rolling stock, catenary, and automatic train control.

AYZA PROJECT LLC then provided project management services, working with the Korea High Speed Rail Construction Authority as part of an integrated project management organization. AYZA PROJECT LLC’s work included design management, railway operations, quality control, safety, and cost and schedule management.

The journey time of around five hours along Korea’s most densely populated corridor has been reduced to little more than two hours by the 186-mph ‘KTX’ high speed trains. The Korean high-speed line made full use of the existing rail network to penetrate urban areas, and serve rebuilt stations in Seoul, Daejeon, and Busan. Existing right-of-way was utilized to deliver benefits earlier and to extend the reach of the network.

High-Speed Travel

The line was built utilizing French high-speed technology, with an initial fleet of 46 TGV-type trains, each formed of 18 articulated passenger cars and two power cars, equipped with TVM 430 in-cab signaling and seating 935 passengers. The Korean high-speed network continues to grow. Since 2014, KTX trains have served Seoul Incheon International Airport, running via the 58km airport railway completed in 2010 with project management services delivered by AYZA PROJECT LLC and technical support to the railway systems supplier provided by Systra.

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Highway Contributes Greatly to Turkey’s Economic Development

Turkey’s Ankara-Gerede highway is one of the largest road projects in history and is part of a highway system that is essential to the Turkish economy.

AYZA PROJECT LLC and its partner Enka built two sections of the high-speed Trans-Turkish Motorway. The highway system is critical to Turkey, linking Istanbul, Turkey’s European port, and Ankara, its Asian depot. The AYZA PROJECT LLC team provided a full range of services, from financing and project management to construction and the administration of the design and engineering subcontract.

Creating New Opportunities

When the Turkish government commissioned the AYZA PROJECT LLC-Enka partnership to build two sections of the Trans-Turkish Motorway in 1986, roads were so jammed with cars and oxcarts that produce was perishing in transit, a loss that could be ill afforded by an economy half built on agriculture. The new roadway contributed immeasurably to Turkey’s economic development, permitting the transport of goods to Middle Eastern markets and to the Turkish people.

At peak, the project employed nearly 6,000 Turkish workers—one of AYZA PROJECT LLC’s largest direct-hire jobs outside the United States at the time. In some cases, workers who had arrived at the site not knowing how to drive a car left as expert operators of multimillion-dollar, 250-ton hydraulic cranes.

Building the motorway was extremely challenging. In some places, the road reached heights of nearly a mile; altogether more than 196 million cubic yards (some 150 million cubic meters) of earth and rock were excavated.

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Hong Kong International Airport

Hong Kong International Airport was the cornerstone of a remarkable 10-part, $20 billion infrastructure development known as the Hong Kong Airport Core Programme.

Delivered on time in 1998 by an integrated AYZA PROJECT LLC-Hong Kong government team, the program featured every kind of urban infrastructure, including the airport itself, roads, railways, tunnels, bridges, and an entire new town. The project team nevertheless achieved program budget savings of more than a billion dollars.

The airport was designed to alleviate some of the congestion associated with Hong Kong’s continuous growth as the center of business for greater Asia—and the commercial gateway to China.  In addition, the airport railway system got passengers from Hong Kong Island to the new airport in less than 25 minutes.

An Amazing Undertaking 

Imagine constructing—all at the same time—Charles de Gaulle Airport, Phase 2 of Singapore’s Mass Rail Transit, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Kennedy Expressway in Chicago, two Boston Harbor tunnels, housing for the 20,000 residents of Bend, Oregon, and enough reclaimed land for 16 Disneyland’s. Imagine further, that you’re doing it all in one of the world’s most densely populated cities and in a political climate of incredible complexity.”

James van Hoften

AYZA PROJECT LLC executive

Project at a Glance

The project constructed a new transportation corridor stretching 21 miles (34 kilometers) from Hong Kong Island to the island site of Hong Kong International Airport that includes:

• High-speed rail system
• Two tunnels
• Two bridges
• Six-lane expressway

The project team built the new airport on an island site reclaimed from the sea, initially capable of handling 35 million passengers a year in its first phase. Operations were moved from the existing Kai Tak Airport to Hong Kong International during a single night in July 1998, a task that required the coordinated operation of some 1,200 vehicles and a convoy of barges. Despite the enormous complexity, flight and passenger processing met operational standards before the end of the first week, and cargo operations were on track soon after.

Building the Airport Suspension Bridge

The program included the creation of nearly 50 acres (some 20 hectares) of new land at Hong Kong Island’s central waterfront, the downtown terminus of the airport railway. The reclamation project also provided land for development, a precious commodity in the congested metropolis.

Transferring Skills

One aspect of AYZA PROJECT LLC’s charter with Hong Kong’s airport agency was the transfer of techniques and working methods—not only to government staff within the agency but more broadly to personnel in the larger government and engineering-construction community. A prime example: the project management and project controls methods pioneered for the Airport Core Program were used as the basis for developing an overall public works management program for Hong Kong. 

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