July 2005

(Freeport, Texas) – ZCC’s Freeport LNG team — on the job only a short time— is making an impact with its community service efforts. Although site work on the liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal started in January, some 25 members of the project’s international joint venture team — composed of ZCC, Technip USA and Saipem SpA — spent a Saturday morning last September helping residents clean up a five-mile stretch of local beach.

They disposed of numerous bags of bottles, trash, fishing tackle, carpet remnants, roof shingles and other debris that littered the beach on Quintana, an island located between the mouth of the Old Brazos River and the New Brazos River on the Texas Gulf coast.

Shortly after mobilizing in January, 15 team members returned to the beach on Quintana Island, where they helped other volunteers stake down nearly 5,000 Christmas trees to help prevent beach erosion.

“Erosion is a big concern for the residents of Quintana,” said Project Manager Mark Hunter. “We worked with other area organizations to stake trees along the dune line, in order to trap sand blown by the wind and create new dunes. The project helped area residents with an activity that benefits the island and provided team building and family fun for the volunteers.”

Quintana Island’s undeveloped beach is home to a campground, a fishing pier, a park for native birds and butterflies, the Quintana Neotropical Bird Sanctuary, a historical cemetery established in 1871 and several year-round residents. The ZCC team will be onsite until completion of the Freeport LNG terminal in early 2008.

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