Amec Foster Wheeler : BG Group and Amec Foster Wheeler win Innovation in Safety Award

Aberdeen, United Kingdom (1 May 2015) - BG Group and Amec Foster Wheeler have won the Innovation in Safety Award at this year's UK Oil & Gas Industry Safety Awards. The judges were impressed to learn that BG Group and Amec Foster Wheeler worked together to deliver an industry first by developing a new technique for removing caissons, the pillars which underpin many North Sea platforms.

The caisson, along with internal dip pipes, was located directly above a gas export line and was a dropped object risk. Expanding foam was pumped down the caisson, fully encapsulating the internal dip pipes, allowing the caisson to be safely cut away in two metre sections.

This innovative method removed the risk to people and the platform and also improved operational efficiency, taking only eight weeks to remove the caisson instead of 22 weeks more traditional methods would have required.

The process holds promise for the future as BG Group plans to use this technology for the removal of similar caissons on other North Sea assets.

BG Group's Vice President, UK Operated Assets, Steve Cox said: "As an industry, we need to work together to develop innovative methods and technologies. This solution has been an outstanding achievement and is testament to great team work and commitment from all companies involved and has the potential to be used for any other similar caissons in poor condition."

Alan Johnstone, Amec Foster Wheeler's Managing Director for Upstream Asset Solutions, said: "This award win is a great achievement for the team and demonstrates the power of collaboration. Finding new, innovative ways of working is what will help the future sustainability of our industry and will help to make the industry a safer place to work."

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BG Group (www.bg-group.com) is an international exploration and production and LNG company, employing around 5,200 people and active in more than 20 countries.

BG Group is a world leader in natural gas, with a strategy focused on connecting competitively priced resources to specific, high-value markets.

Amec Foster Wheeler (www.amecfw.com) designs, delivers and maintains strategic and complex assets for its customers across the global energy and related sectors.

With pro-forma 2014 annualised scope revenues of £5.5 billion and over 40,000 people in more than 50 countries, the company operates across the whole of the oil and gas industry - from production through to refining, processing and distribution of derivative products - and in the mining, clean energy, power generation, pharma, environment and infrastructure markets.

Amec Foster Wheeler shares are publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange and its American Depositary Shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Both trade under the ticker AMFW.

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