Bechtel completed the engineering, procurement, and construction of a water system and desalination plant for the Escondida copper mine in Chile[1][142] in 2018.[143] The Bechtel-Techint joint venture team built a dual 112-mile-long pipeline to carry desalinated water from the Pacific Coast across the Atacama Desert to the Escondida copper mine approximately 10,000 feet above sea level in the Andes.[144]