As U.S. LNG producers continue to progress a bevy of Gulf Coast export projects to meet global demand for natural gas volumes, Bechtel Energy President Paul Marsden said the engineering firm is focusing on innovative solutions for the region’s ballooning labor issues during the next wave of infrastructure build-out.

Over the past few decades, Virginia-based Bechtel has been responsible for the construction and installation of around one-third of the world’s liquefied natural gas production capacity. Since 2018, Bechtel has completed 17 LNG trains, most of which have been large-scale projects.

Along with the developing projects Bechtel currently has in its pipeline, the global energy crisis that sparked off last year has also helped spur oil and gas infrastructure projects...