Amec Foster Wheeler secures lifetime enterprise agreement with EDF

Project management giant Amec Foster Wheeler has secured a long-term enterprise agreement with energy supplier EDF Energy.

While the value of the deal remains undisclosed, Amec Foster Wheeler, which operates a number of sites across Cheshire and Cumbria, has confirmed that its efforts will span the operating life of EDF’s Advanced Gas-cooled Reactors and focus on reactor systems, plant performance and reactor technology.

The president of Amec Foster Wheeler’s Clean Energy business, Clive White, said the agreement will: “allow both parties to plan on a long term, strategic basis and invest in resources, tools and facilities to secure safe, reliable operational performance, to deliver EDF Energy’s objectives for their nuclear stations.”

He added: “It further reinforces Amec Foster Wheeler’s long-term knowledge and expertise in the field of reactor support and will allow us to help ensure that EDF Energy can generate, clean, reliable and safe electricity for years to come.”

The deal will see the company providing support such as modelling and simulation services and measures to enhance efficiency.

EDF Energy’s director of nuclear operations, Brian Cowell, commented: “Amec Foster Wheeler’s unique range of skills and capabilities in nuclear engineering, combined with its longstanding relationship with EDF Energy, makes it the ideal partner to deliver the Lifetime Enterprise Agreement.

“The contract will enable us continue to deliver the secure, reliable, low carbon electricity the UK needs now and into the future.”

Earlier this month, Amec Foster Wheeler reported a drop in revenue. The firm’s Clean Energy business 250 people at Barrow and Sellafield in Cumbria and around 1,200 at its operations in Birchwood and Knutsford, Cheshire.

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